Yippeee I am to to swim the English Channel as one of six in a relay team for the charity ASPIRE in July 2012. ASPIRE is there for people with spinal injuries, it is a fantastic charity which does amazing work. Please help me to help them. http://www.aspire.org.uk/home.aspx

Having spent a year of being a "floater" (reserve) to the teams that swam in 2011 I now have a place in a team, Aspire Otters. I feel priveledged in having that years' experience as I now know of all the good and bad bits of the swim. I am looking forward to the three training weekends where we spend hours swimming up and down and up and down Dover harbour starting with an half hour swim in May and finishing with a two hours swim in early July. (without a wet swim and only a smidgen of vaseline!) I am not looking forward to the pebbles that add that little element of torture to the weekends.

Finally in late July the Team will be off to contend with the swim and dodging ships ..........

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