This has been a remarkably difficult blog post to write. I didn’t really know how to approach it because, whilst I accept there are often setbacks in life, I absolutely hate having to give up on a challenge. I also hate moaning on about my health – but it seems […]

It’s about 6.30pm and I’ve ventured in for my final swim in the Med before returning home from a 5-day break in Puerto Pollensa, Mallorca. The sea temperature is about 16 degrees – positively tropical by British standards! – but it’s still a bit of a shock to the system […]

I haven’t ventured into a swimming pool since 2019. In my head I suppose I feel there should be a bit of pomp and circumstance attached to the momentous occasion of my first training swim. But no, it’s just me at 6.30am and an exceedingly warm, rather ‘compact and bijou’ […]

When I got the phone call from Becky at Henley Swim, telling me I’d won one of the coveted six This Girl Can places to swim a mile in this year’s Henley Swim Festival, I quite honestly could not believe my ears. ME? Really? I mean REALLY, really?! I was […]