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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, 8 November 2011

I've swum 19.3 miles now....170 lengths to go

The last school swimming today as it's a fun swim next week, so I won't be dong any lengths then - just playing with my friends. I did sets of 10 today - front crawl and breast stroke - I joined all my front crawl lengths with tumble turns - everyone in my class thought it was really cool!!! 
Only 170 lengths left  now - I've just looked on the map to see how far 19.3 miles is - I've swum over lots of sea you know and I've nearly made it to France. I've got a cold at the moment so I'm going to be out of the pool until Saturday now. Mummy and Daddy say I'm still well on schedule to finish at least a week early, so I'll let you know how I get on at the weekend. Love Oliver
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