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Hello and welcome to my blog. You can read about my challenge to be the youngest boy ever to complete the Aspire Channel Swim and also follow my journey towards being an even better swimmer. You can also read about my achievements along the way - like being the 2012 Kellogg's ASA Swimtastic Young Swimmer of the Year.
I completed the Channel swim when I was 6 years old - the task was to swim the equivalent of the English Channel in a pool in 12 weeks. That's 22 miles, or 1416 lengths of a 25m pool - this meant swimming 118 lengths a week, every week for the duration of the challenge. I finished the swim in 11 weeks and got my first swimming record.

BY DOING THIS I BECAME THE YOUNGEST BOY EVER TO COMPLETE THE ASPIRE CHANNEL SWIM and raised over £1273 to help people with spinal injuries.

Now I'm working to be an even better swimmer. I know I can swim for long distances, now I am working on swimming faster.

IN 2020 I'LL BE 15 - MICHAEL PHELPS SWAM IN HIS FIRST OLYMPICS WHEN HE WAS 15 - THAT'S MY DREAM TOO.

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

It was COLD! today, but Mark Foster kept me going!

Phew..winter has come.. it was cold in the pool at school swimming today - mummy got me out when my lips went blue after 500m! Never mind we break up for half term tomorrow so I'll get a big daytime swim in later this week, watch this space. I got another tweet from Mark Foster today to say well done for getting half way - (you can see it on twitter @oliversswim) - it's really cool to hear from people I see on the TV especially people who are really, really good swimmers.
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