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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.

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

I WON TODAY!

Hi Everyone
It's been a really exciting today - I won the Outstanding Young Person Award in the Heart of Somerset Awards 2012. I went with Mummy and Daddy to a special awards ceremony at Wookey Hole Caves. There were loads of really great people who had done brave and inspiring things. I was really surprised to win my category, I didn't think I would.
They played the video of me swimming and I was really pleased that my swimming looked really cool with the underwater camera. I got to take home two framed certificates and also won £100! Everyone knew who I was today, it was like being famous.
I met Valerie Singleton too, she was doing all the talking on stage. Daddy said she was like Helen Skelton on Blue Peter when he was little. She was very friendly.
Well done to everyone who was at the awards today, I really enjoyed hearing all the stories about the kind and brave things people in Somerset had done.
I really need Daddy to put me up a special trophy shelf now!!
Love Oliver
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