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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 27 November 2013

My First Ever Official Races....

Last Sunday I got to race officially for the first time at our Club Championships. As I am still only 8 I could only enter the 25m races but I was really excited to be properly timed in a real competition. When we got there, the club records for each race had been published in the programme and I could see what the existing records were for my first two races - 25m breaststroke and 25m butterfly. Simone and my coaches always say that you should race against your time not the person next to you, so I decided that as I didn't have a time yet, I was going to race against the record times...And guess what...

I beat them both!!!!
For 25m breaststroke the old record was 29.22 - my time was 24.46 
For 25m butterfly the old record was 31.16 - my time was 23.20

My next races are on the 7 December - when I will be dong 25m front crawl, 25m back stroke and 100m Individual Medley.....I will let you know how I get on.
Love Oliver 
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