I am going to make myself train for and swim the Agatha Christie Sea Swim for Rowcroft Hospice.

Although I spend a lot of time dipping in the sea, I don't swim far and usually just have a chat with my dipping buddies. I used to swim a lot as a child but this was in the safety of a pool and I am definitely not as fit as I was. So I am going to get out of my comfort zone and get training. I love being in the sea but I am not comfortable swimming in deep deep water and swimming this route is going to be a huge fitness and mental challenge for me.

The Agatha Christie Sea Swim is a mile long swim leaving from Beacon Cove, where Agatha swam as a child when it was the Ladies' Bathing Place and swim past the Imperial Hotel, which is featured in several of her books.

The swim then hugs the coast past Peaked Tor Cove (the former Gentlemen's Bathing Place) and then past Dyers Quarry and on to London Bridge Arch. I am hoping to swim under this natural arch before continuing along past a huge cave known as Thunder Hole or Daddy Hole - it was once believed that the devil lived in this cave!  

The last past of the swim takes you past West Shag Rock and into the elegant curve of Meadfoot Bay overlooked by the majestic 19th century Osborne Hotel. The beach was one of the first to allow mixed bathing and was a favourite with Agatha, who would spend her summers with her sister Madge and her nephew Jack on what was considered the more aristocratic and fashionable beach.The event finishes on Meadfoot Beach.  

About 225 swimmers are taking part in this event and there will be safety backup.

Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity providing a wide range of specialist palliative care services for people and their families with progressive life-limiting illnesses in South Devon. It is an amazing charity and it relies on donations to keep doing its vital work.

I have set a target of £1600, this is about £1 for every metre I will swim. I would love you to donate what you can to keep me going.

Could you donate £16 for 10 metres of my swim?

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