When I was 11 I went to the Isles of Scilly in holiday - I swam, I sailed, I even fished and I fell in love with the place.  I've not been back since and then I did a really silly thing which was to sign up for the Scilly Swim Challenge.  The idea is to swim around the Scilly Isles from island to island totalling 15km of swimming and 10k of hiking.  The only sensible thing about all this is that I've signed up for the two day version rather than doing it all in one day.

I'm more of a lakes and river swimmer and can't bear the taste of salt when I swim in the sea (should have thought of that) but am really up for the challenge and wanted to support The Benevolent in this act of madness.