26th August 2008

OK. So it's about time I started to update this. I won't bore you with daily updates but I'll keep you informed when I've done a big swim / cold swim / boring swim / hard swim etc etc!

If you have arrived at this page, I'm sure you would have read the reasons why I'm attempting to swim the English Channel next July. I'm sure you would have read about all the hurdles I need to overcome and I'm sure you would have read all about my training schedule!

I am still going swimming at either Salford Quays, Manchester 0r Boundary Water Park, Knutsford on a Thursday evening.... and then Albert Dock, Liverpool on Sunday mornings. I am managing to fit in two indoor swims every week aswell - usually a Monday & Friday evening. I'm still running every morning (weekdays only!) which is keeping my fitness up. When the open water swimming comes to an end at the end of September, I am planning to join a gym and start to work on 'muscle building'! Through winter I will try to maintain 4 swimming sessions a week, aswell as my runs in the morning (which I will try my hardest to do in just shorts & a T-Shirt no matter how cold - followed by the usual cold shower!), and I will then work out a routine of gym sessions too.

To date I have done the Albert Dock 2mile race and the Rivington Reservoir 4mile race. The next challenge is Loch Earn on the 13th September. I am especially nervous of this one - not because of the 6.5mile distance so much as the COLD water. I have been told it can be as cold as 12degrees. So please please please let the next three weeks warm up so the temperature may pick up to a lovely warm 14 at least! I will make sure this is updated after my Loch Earn swim unless anything particularly extraordinary happens in the meantime! (ie more jellyfish down my costume!)

Cheers for now,

Jacqs

August 2008

Please bear with me while I get this up and running! I promise to update it a.s.a.p!

Jacqui