Day One: Sunday19th August

20 lengths (yay!) in my local pool - Marston Ferry in Summertown, Oxford. 25m length pool, so my first 500m completed

I learnt to swim a doggy paddle as a kid, and a passable head-above-water breastroke - very useful for wildswimming. I have always enjoyed mucking about in water, but thought I'd never learn to swim properly until this year when I decided learn a proper breathing technique for the front crawl. It's working!

Day Two: Monday 20th August

Swam 25 lengths of the outdoor pool at St Edward's outdoor pool, Oxford. this is a 20 m pool, so that's my next 500m, so the first Kilometre completed! only another 137km to go!

Today was fun. I was accompanied for some of my swim by Katie, younger sister of my son's best friend. She is 8, swims crawl faster than me, but I beat her at breaststroke! She can do butterfly! I think that is a Never for me, but then I used to think that about front crawl.........the lifeguard saw how hard I was working on my crawl and gave me some really useful feedback on my leg kick technique - I did some practice using a float and only kicking, and now I actually move forward instead of backwards!