Hello, I feel disgraceful asking you to sponsor me to spend time in my favourite place.  But 100 lengths of a 50 metre swimming pool is an awful lot, and I have got the jitters.  It's the furthest I'll have swum in a long while and I have visions that I'll still be ploughing up and down as they take the Swimathon signs away and small kids with inflatables start playing around me. 

The only thing stopping me from backing out is that this is all in aid of some very good causes, and to fight cancer.  Which as I so nicely say above, is a total fu***r.  It's claiming far too many people, my dear mum included, and I am desperately  sad how many close friends and their family members are being impacted by the disease. 

So if I need to turn myself in to a prune with aching shoulders to do something helpful I will. I'm suggesting a £1 per km, so a fiver each if you feel at all inclined to sponsor me.

AND if you wanted to come and watch, I'll be in the London Fields Lido from 8am on Saturday 28 April. It'll be sort of like watching one of those captive sea creatures going to and fro at the zoo. A fun day out for all the family!   

Thank you for reading thus far, official blurb below. 

On your marks.... Swimathon is back in 2018!

Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie are teaming up and heading down to the pool for Swimathon 2018 – thousands of swimmers, two great causes, one big charity challenge.

Cancer Research UK, the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research, will be involved in Swimathon for the first time. 

Marie Curie, the UK’s leading charity for people with any terminal illness and their families, has been Swimathon's charity partner ten times since it launched in 1986 and has raised over £17 million for the charity through the event during that time. 

By taking part in the world’s biggest fundraising swimming event you will be fundraising for two incredible causes.

A challenge for everyone. A #SwimForAll