Progress and Swimming the English Channel

I was moved up to the next class a couple of months ago. I get to learn in the big pool now. I have a different teacher, and am learning different things. He is trying to teach me to become a swimmer, not just helping me not to drown.

Swimming the English Channel for Diabetes U.K

I was diagnosed as a diabetic about forty years ago. Living with it can be a challenge at times. But, as my wee sister, who is a nurse, once told me, “Diabetes doesn’t have to be a pain in the arse, John. There are lots of other sites you can use to inject your insulin.”

Diabetes UK has an annual fundraiser in which participants swim the distance of the English Channel over three months. You can swim all the way across, back and forth, or halfway. I have signed up to swim halfway across.

I’m not a strong or fast swimmer, but I thought I could manage the eleven miles over three months in bursts of twenty-five or fifty metres. So far I have swum just over nine miles in a bit over a month, so I might see if I can make it all the way across.

You can find my information and donations page here.