WE DID IT!! 13 hours, 6 minutes and 9 seconds - amazing time, amazing swim and the experience of a lifetime! Thank you so much everyone for your support. We're still fundraising so don't stop donating!

UPDATE: We have the green light! We are swimming on Sunday, setting off from Dover at 4am and not stopping until we get to France 15-18 hours later. Wish us luck everybody!

To track our progress on Sunday you can click on the following link and then tick the box for our boat 'Anastasia' http://cspf.co.uk/tracking

 

Alternatively you can look at our Pilots own web site - there could be some video clips loaded onto these, indicated on the track http://www.lovechannelswimming.com/swims

 

We will be tweeting during the day. Please communicate lots as this will really help us https://twitter.com/#6Grls0B

 

We will also be updating our Facebook page regularly.                    www.facebook.com/sixgirlsnobuoys

 

MY STORY:

At Camden School for Girls we were asked to think of fundraising ideas. The school motto is 'Onwards and Upwards' so this amazing endurance challenge fits that perfectly. A comprehensive state school in North London, CSG does not have a swimming pool, nor a swimming team. Despite this, thanks to its founder Francis Mary Buss it was the first girls school in Britain to include sport as part of its core curriculum.

Fellow Y8 student Lily Ouldcott and I decided that swimming the English Channel was a worthwhile challenge (not too sure now!) and we set about getting this organised. We asked Lily's Dad (he swam the channel last year) to coach us, secured a pilot boat, pursuaded the school to get behind this and cajoled some other Y8 girls to join the adventure. 

We have been cold water training in the Serpentine most weekends, endurance swimming in pools during the week and have been training at Dover Harbour since 9th June.The sea is cold, dirty and sometimes very rough, we have been stung by jellyfish (freaky!) often end up in tears because we are so cold and tired but we go back and do it all again the next weekend.

UPDATE: "We have all qualified by doing a 2 hour swim at Dover Harbour in 16C or less, surviving the cold, jellyfish stings and exhaustion but we've done it! The swim is scheduled for August 27th and we have a 4 day window - the weather and sea conditions will determine the exact date."

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So please dig deep and donate now. Thank you!

Millie

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