Hello!

Thanks for visiting my pageJ I thought I’d up the challenge a bit from the usual runs and so I have decided to swim the English Channel next year as part of a relay team.

As part of a group we will swim from Dover (England) to Calais (France), a total of 21 miles (32km). Hopefully we will reach our destination by avoiding big tankers, ferries, jellyfish and random planks of wood.

You would think swimming in cold temperature (average 13c), choppy water and high wind force would be a challenge itself but to make it even more challenging we will be swimming without a wetsuit!

Currently I am training weekly at a swimming pool and recently I have been training in lakes and in the sea without a wetsuit to acclimitise to water temperatures as low as 11c! Brrr!!

I, along with my swimming costume, cap, goggles and travel sickness tablets, will be very much grateful for any support (financial and/or moral) to tackle what would be one of the biggest mental and physical challenges I will have ever encountered.

Thanking you all and each individually for taking the time to read this and for sponsoring my torture :) xxx