I'm taking on the Aspire Channel Swim 2017, swimming the distance of the Channel over 12 weeks to raise money for Aspire. Every eight hours someone is paralysed by a Spinal Cord Injury and Aspire provides the essential equipment, advice, housing and grants that spinal cord injured people need to live their lives independently. Like last year I'm intending to do my swim outside in the unheated waters of Parliament Hill Lido. I'm starting my challenge on 1st September, when the water will be a lot warmer than the time I finish...