This May I've been swimming to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. I decided to do it for two reasons; I've lost several colleagues at work to cancer over the last year and some friends previously, and I wanted to do something in their memory, and also I thought that it was a good step for me in improving my health, as the need to swim, twice a week, for at least 50 lengths a time has got to be a positive.
The challenge is to swim 10,000m (400 25m lengths) over the whole of May 2026. I've made steady progress on this and on my eighth session I hit the target. I haven't stopped since, and after my ninth swim, I'm on 12,800m (512 lengths). I've swum most of that in breaststroke, mainly as my front crawl / freestyle is not brilliant. However, last night I introduced some front crawl (as the pressure over distance was off), and it was hard work. I was significantly quicker (it took about 15 seconds off a length) but I struggled to get my breathing timing right! Definitely need work more on this, as it felt like I was working harder.
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| Ignore the extra 50m on the screenshot above, as that came from my Apple Watch misinterpreting by movements. |
I'm currently at £660 raised, plus gift aid. I also have another £250 promised as match funding from work. That's absolutely fantastic - thank you to everyone who has donated - but there's part of me that hopes I can raise another £90 as then I'd have broken £1,000.
If you're interested in seeing my updates on individual swims or making a donation, my fundraising page is here: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/dominics-giving-page-2046
Thanks!
30 May 2026
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