MEET THE CLASS OF 2022

This year's 6 inspiring Girls have been selected and are preparing to take on swimming a mile in the Thames on July 10th 2022 at the Outdoor Swimmer Henley Swim Festival.
Read about each of them by clicking on their images above

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The Big Swim

July 21st, 2022 / by / in: Uncategorised / 4 Responses

The Big Swim 8 minute read From day one, I knew I could swim the Henley Mile. It was within my physical capabilities, and I was willing to do the work in the lead up to 10 July 2022. It was a challenge; it was something to aim for and […]

Let’s Do This

July 9th, 2022 / by / in: Uncategorised / 1 Response

Let’s Do This 2 minute read Of course I managed to acclimatise back into swimming outdoors in London. The jet lag lifted, work was incredibly busy, and I had to ramp up my training regime for the looming Big Swim on 10 July 2022 – days, rather than weeks away. […]

In the Deep End

May 1st, 2022 / by / in: Uncategorised / 2 Responses

These past couple of weeks have been the start of a new routine for me….new job and dedicated swim training sessions. Well that was the plan, but life never goes to plan! The new job has been awesome, lovely company, interesting work but so much to learn, therefore the 3x […]

A Milestone

June 15th, 2019 / by / in: Uncategorised / No responses

We’re beginning to find a rhythm now.  My daughter, Miranda, and I have been swimming more regularly – helped, of course, by our immense luck in living a short walk away from the wonderful Thames Lido and having access to a relative’s outdoor pool. The Thames Lido is a gorgeous […]

Slow off the mark

June 4th, 2019 / by / in: Uncategorised / No responses

It hasn’t been the most auspicious of starts.  Re-reading my introductory blog, I see that it was posted in early May.  What?  Almost a month has elapsed?  And what have I done in the meantime?  Not enough, and not nearly enough with my daughter. I knew that maintaining motivation would […]

Dipping a toe in

May 13th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / 3 Responses

Sometimes it’s those little questions that get in the way….like what an earth am I meant to be doing? Ok, I know the bigger picture, the general gist being to swim up and down at variety of different speeds, with a variety of paraphernalia, but aside from that. How do […]

Getting superpowers

May 4th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / No responses

It may sound a little odd to admit, but one of the things I worry about as I swim is being conspicuous. So when I received my official Henley swim hat I realised this was something I was going to have to get over, though I have to confess it’s […]

It’s all about the wobble

April 26th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / 2 Responses

It’s not a great week when you find you have to include a walk along the towpath as part of your training, but I’ll take successes where I can and with the husband working away I needed to be creative. Not to be defeated I figured this gave me opportunity […]

An undiscovered talent

April 18th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / 2 Responses

6:30am normally finds me in a bleary eyed state of semi-consciousness, fueled by strong coffee as I get ready to try and spoon porridge into a wide awake baby.  So, with this in mind choosing to set the alarm for 6am before the sound asleep baby woke up seemed to […]