After running marathons (with and without wine), climbing mountains doing a full Ironman, and developing a love for cold water dips in Sweden, it’s probably time (as many have asked) for me to swim the Channel 🏊‍♀️ 🚢

So in summer 2026, myself and a group of brilliant women from 10IronWomen will celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the first woman to swim the Channel by doing the same - a relay Channel swim.

We’re doing this for strong women everywhere: the trailblazers who came before us, the incredible women in our community today, and my mum, who I lost in 2024, still the strongest woman I ever knew. And we’re doing it the best way we know: goggles on, jellyfish ahead, and questioning our life choices at 3am in freezing cold water.

We’re raising money for Aspire, a spinal cord injury charity doing genuinely life-changing work. Being able to take on challenges like this is a privilege, so we want to give back to people who don’t get the same freedom of movement we’re lucky to have.

Only around 10,000 people in history have ever swum the Channel, solo or relay, which makes this a pretty special challenge. We’ll be swimming for around 15 hours, one hour at a time, in strict rotation, no wetsuits allowed. Once you start, there’s no stopping — each swimmer has to be ready to get back in on their exact hour, through the night, in cold, unpredictable water. It’s equal parts teamwork, stubbornness and mild chaos, and we absolutely cannot wait.

If you can support with a donation, a share, or some moral encouragement as I spend winter and spring living in my dry robe, clutching endless hot drinks and trying not to pick up a rotator cuff injury, I’ll be so grateful. Thank you ❤️