After last year when swimming the 5k breaststroke did my knee no good,  I have been taking swimming lessons to improve my crawl so that I can at least mix my strokes... hopefully this may improve my time too.

This year I am dedicating the swim to Delyth, a wonderful person who we will all miss.

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