Shelby's English Channel Relay Swim
Shelby Donoghue is raising money for Aspire
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Thanks for having a look at my Just Giving page:
Ever since being a child - I always wanted to swim the English Channel, but it has only been the last few years, I started swimming outdoors (Oh the joy, of being surrounded by nature) that I seriously started thinking about it.
So this is the first step, a relay swim. Aspire organise a relay Channel swim and thought what a great idea to combine my need to tick this swim off my list and raise money for a worthy charity. It's a massive task to swim from England to France - it's approximately 22 miles across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, well thats if you go straight across and that won't happen. We will have to contend with strong tides, the cold water 16°C if we're lucky, jellyfish, shipping containers... and my biggest worry - seasickness.
Our team of 6 "The Sea Lions" will be setting off from Dover's Shakespeare beach and taking it in turns, swim for an hour. This will approximately take 14-18 hours, if the weather gods are in our favour.Please take time to read what great work Aspire do for spinal injury patients - it isn't a well known charity, but my time spent down there was inspiring.
Many Thanks again
Shelby xxx
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