Welcome

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.

Thursday 19 January 2012

ASPIRE CHANNEL SWIM NOMINATE MY BLOG FOR AN AWARD

We were really excited today to hear that Aspire has nominated this blog for the 2012 Reader's Choice Swimming Blog Awards. If you have enjoyed it you will have your chance to vote in February. I will let you know when voting opens. Love Oliver
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Sunday 1 January 2012

I've been voted Young Person of the Year

Happy New Year Everyone! I had a huge surprise today when I got home from spending a lovely Christmas with my cousins in Canada - I have been voted Young Person of the Year by the Somerset Standard for my swim and there's a big picture of me in the paper. If you're not in the area - here's the link so you can read the story. http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Young-Person-Year-Oliver-Saunders/story-14270108-detail/story.html
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