Hello! I'm sorry for the slightly tardy update but the swim was on Sunday and I made it in 3 hours and 37 minutes! I feel so relieved and happy (although do have a bout of "stomach flu" from the rainwater-apparently it increases sewage levels in the water!). I spent the first 30 minutes convinced I couldn't do it because it was freezing! I couldn't get into my stroke & my breath kept catching but I started kicking really hard and got into it. It really was thinking about these donations that spurred me on so thank you so much! You're amazing xx

Thank you very much for all of your donations; I appreciate it so much! I've done the longest training swim I'm going to do now (5 of the 6 miles) and am just going to be doing cold swims this week to get ready for the river temperature (which at the minute is around 17 degrees). I'm getting really excited and am so grateful we've managed to raise so much money for My Body Back. One week exactly to go for this final push!

This is me looking a bit exhausted & dishevelled after a 5k training swim (a bit over 3 miles) in the gorgeous open air swimming pool in Gourock, Scotland, where I've been kicking about this week. Thank you so much to everyone for the donations & encouragement so far (& Guy for yours today!) I'm raising money for the brilliant work of My Body Back Project (http://www.mybodybackproject.com) & knowing that makes all the achey legs very much worth it, & will hopefully power me the 10k down the River Dart next month. Thank you for supporting me xx