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Adam's Swim to the Isle of Wight

Adam Olden is raising money for Aspire
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Aspire Solent Swim · 20 July 2025 to 14 September 2025 ·

Every two hours someone in the UK is paralysed by a spinal cord injury. It can happen to anyone at any time and no one is prepared for how it will change their life. Aspire is a national charity that provides practical help, supporting spinal cord injured people from injury to independence.

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Updated 29th Sept 2025:

after 3x attempts this summer, I finally made it across to the IoW this morning! It took me 1hr 46mins, which was faster than I thought I’d be, lots of training paid off!

Original note:

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

On the 20th July 2025 i'm going to attempt to swim from Gosport to Ryde on the Isle of Wight in aid of Aspire.

I've been swimming a fair bit over the last few years but have never had a formal swimming lesson and just seem to make it up as I go along - I've never attempted a distance this far and across multiple shipping channels, so this will be a tough challenge!

Please sponsor me to help out this worthwhile charity. Thanks. Adam

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