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 find raiser, which involves swimming across the English Channel. Not actually swimming the channel, though I supposed you could do that if you wanted to. The idea is that you swim the distance over a period of three months.  You can swim all the way across, across and back or half way. So I have also signed up to swim half way across the English Channel.

I’m not exactly a strong nor a fast swimmer, but I thought that over the three months of the challenge, that I should be able to manage the eleven miles in bursts of twenty-five or fifty metres. So far I have swum just over nine miles in a bit over month, so I might see if I can make it all the way across.

My information and donations page can be found here.

You can use it to see how I am doing.