My Channel swim is officially over – the fish can relax now. Monday the 22nd of June was the grand finale of the challenge. I hit the target I’d set myself: eleven miles, or halfway across, which I’m counting as “Channel Lite.” I kept going but didn’t quite make it to France – presumably they’d run out of croissants anyway. I clocked up sixteen-and-a-bit miles in total, including about four hundred metres actually in the Channel. I’m pretty chuffed with that, especially considering that this time last year I could barely manage five metres without looking like I was wrestling the water.
This is a link to my page if anyone would like to sponsor me, if you haven’t done so already.
A big thank you to everyone who has supported me, with sponsorship or encouragement. And thank you to my swimming teachers, without whom I would have drowned.
It is not going to be a theme of the blog, but I am diabetic and have been for about 25 years. Still as some one, probably my sister, once said to me; “John, diabetes doesn’t have to be a pain in the arse, there are lots of other places you can inject your insulin.”
All this is partly to explain why I found this video clip funny.
Still at least diabetics in the UK don’t have to spend half their lives arguing with Health Insurance companies. Well, for the time being at least.
A guy named Marcus Grimm made it. He blogs at Sweet Victory. His main theme is running marathons,
I’ll stick to cycling.
If someone can do a mash-up of the two of them it would make a perfect theme video for Team Type-1
