2012 English Channel Swim

7 - 14 September 2012



After having cycled through Africa, completed 5 Ironman Triathlons, run the Comrades Ultra Marathon, Climbed Kili ... I have decided to take on a slightly tougher option ...



... 34km of cold, open water swimming ... leaving the coast of the eternal "wanna-be" soccer nation, over to the "frogs" on the other side ...





Tuesday 10 April 2012

Good Easter Weekend

Now that was good :-) ... a very productive long weekend. Work, training and catching up with family and friends ...


The feeling of processing through a full email inbox and ending a weekend with it totally empty is just fabulous. The only problem is that one has processed, replied, attended to all the mails ... and now inevitably I shall receive endless new responses or follow-up issues to mails processed ... the never ending admin trail in life ...


On the swimming side I managed a good 25km this last week. with a decent 6km on each day Friday, Saturday and Sunday ... followed by pleasant stiffness and tiredness which can best be treated with a really nice glass of wine. A rest day yesterday and a nice 3km session this morning.


It is a good feeling to have put in a truly productive swim week again ... and maybe I can top it off with a good long open water swim in the next week or two.