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The Great North Swim is held in Windermere Lake in the Lake District. I have chosen to do the 5 km (3.1 miles) event on Sunday 11th June this is a distance I have not yet tried even in the pool so in open water at
Windermere presents quite a challenge. For more information on this
event see http://www.greatrun.org/great-swim/great-north-swim#how-to-enter

The Henley Classic (http://henleyswim.com/events/henley-classic/) is a 2.1 km (1.3 miles) endurance upstream River Thames swimming event, held over the Henley Royal Regatta course, very early on the Sunday morning 25th June before the Wednesday start of Henley Royal Regatta.  This event is a celebration of mid-summer. It provides a unique opportunity to swim one of the most famous and beautiful stretches of
open water in the world, at what we believe is the most beautiful time
of the day, dawn. A key feature of the event is that you arrive in
darkness and walk the 1/4 of a mile to the start into the sunrise, led
by the torch carrier.   As I have never swum in a river let alone up river this is going to be a  challenge but one that I'm looking forward to very much.

Finally, I'm doing the Aspire Solent swim https://www.aspire.org.uk/solent-swims-2017 on the 2 September. This open water swim of between 4 and 4.8 km (2.5 and 3 miles) depending on the tides and swimming speed across the Solent to the Isle of Wight starts at Fort Gilkicker and ends in Ryde sands escorted by RIBs (rigid inflatable boats) and kayaks.

Again this is not something I have done before and I look forward to the challenge this presents.

I have a lot of training to do not least of which is to get used to the cold of open water, the splash of the waves and the currents.

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Aspire will be making a contribution towards the costs of the Solent swim, their contribution will not exceed £325.00 per participant.