Just Keep Swimming: Day 10

Monday, 13 June 2011

Day 10

I was my hardest swim so far today. The chlorine is making me really itchy and because of that I didn't sleep very well last night, which made getting up at 7am very difficult (especially as I'm a student, and getting up 'early' for me is the 8:30 alarm which I have for work). I didn't want to go, and I must admit that I did burst into tears when I couldn't find my shoes!

But I'm feeling better now. My Dad bought me a packet of Haribo* (he said if I name-check them, they might send me a big, big box of tangfastics. It's worth a shot :-P ), so that was my breakfast, and in an hour I'll be off to the train station and I'll see my lovely Hugh. We're having a trip into Cambridge.

The swim itself wasn't too hard. Thank you to the lifeguard Emily who let me stay in a little bit later, as I was only on 98 lengths when she closed the pool. I'm not finding it too difficult physically, but it is difficult in my head in that it feels like I've been swimming forever and I'm still less than 10% of the way. But it will get easier as I get fitter. Right now it feels like I'm spending my whole day either swimming, sleeping or working, but as I swim faster (my aim is to be able to swim the distance in just over half an hour) it will take up less of my day and I'll have more time to do other things.

On a different note, I've been looking at the stats and I see that I'm getting an awful lot of hits from America (I do have family in the USA, but I doubt they've been checking out my blog half a dozen times a day!) and a few from Germany and Poland. I'd really appreciate it if you could sponsor me (and tell all your friends about what I'm doing so that they can support me too). Please could you at least email me, or comment on this post? I'd like to know who you are :-)

Right, shower time now. I didn't have one at the pool as my shampoo exploded (today's not really my day, but things can only go up from here!), and the itching is getting unbearable.

Please sponsor me. Everyone's generosity is what is keeping me going.

810 down, 8450 to go

* I got told off for this. Apparently it was my Mum's idea, but my Dad's implementation. So thank you to both of my parents.

Another 7am start tomorrow. Can't wait.

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Thank you to:

Sponsors:

Akash, Mercy, Tom, The Breezes, Bat & Steve, Carli, Anna, Zerelda, Katie, My Mum and Dad, Angharad, Jen & Justin, The Crisp Family, Harry, Rusty, Hazel, Jackie, Hugh, Ursula, Sam, The Bedford family, The Banks family, Granma and Grandad, The Westoby Family, Chris, Catherine, Christian, Anna, Danny, Will, Chris, Jenn, Roz, The drunk lady at the pub, Michael, Joe, Alice, Todd, Christian (again. He wanted more brownies), The Wright Family, Ursie again :-), Aiden, Lianne, The people of BSEAODS, The people at the Spread Eagle, The people at Abbeycroft Leisure, Bury St Edmunds, Ross, Rui & his brothers, Tahi, My Granda Peter and Marion, The Clark family, Ray, Maddy, Glasswells, Jill and Barry, Lloyd, Abi, Hannah, The Limmer Family, Cat, Ian and Jack, Jordan, Tim, Tom (again, because he thought that donating by text looked like fun!), Denny Bros, Neil, The people at the Rose and Crown, the people at Eric's Prime Cuts, The JustGivingTeam, Jackie, Megan, Ruth, Linda, Mark, British Sugar, the Gentleman I used to swim with.

Other help:

Kath and Jacqui from TAG, Jo & Tudor at the EADT, Hugh, Carli, Mum and Dad for putting up with all of my swimming talk & giving me lots of ideas (and Hugh's also made lots of phone calls for me and taken lots of pictures and made me a poster and agreed to do lots of favours, so thank you a lot :-) ). My Dad's also taken me to places he frequents (the pub and the butchers) so I can ask them to put a collecting tin on their counter/bar. Clare and Tracy who have let me put a collecting box, poster and business cards on reception at the leisure centre. Hazel who let me do the same on the bar at the Spread Eagle, and Liz at the Rose and Crown, and Jim and James at Eric's. Carli who made lots of brownies for me and then sold them, and who's also took some pictures of me and given out business cards :-) . Neil and Ant at the Spread Eagle who gave me the kick up the bum to ask all of the patrons for sponsorship. Ursie, who's been getting all of her friends (many of whom have never met me) to donate, and Carli (what would I do without my sister??) who's been doing the same, especially with BSEAODS. And also to all of the lovely people who don't know me and who haven't heard of Arthrogryposis, but still gave a few quid, and an extra special thank you to the woman who had never met me before but who gave me £20 at the pub today (18/6/11), because she didn't have anything smaller. Bat who bought me some more business cards and is just generally a wonderful godmother :-) Jackie who gave me the idea for a scrapbook. I'd never thought about it, but I think I'll appreciate it in the years to come. Jill for letting me film in a training session, Hugh, Amy, Lloyd, Chris, Jordan, Jack and David for being in my video, and Ursie for filming it. Tal at JustGiving for putting me in their blog, the judges of the JustTextGiving competition who gave me a runners-up prize, Hugh and Ursula especially, but everyone who was involved in my surprise video, party etc. (Mum, Dad, Carli, Hugh, Granma, Grandad, Ursula, Polly, Steve, Diana, Kian, Christian, Joe, Hannah, Carl, Josh, Lewis, Aiden, Hannah, Jordan, Hazel, Veronica, Jackie, Alice, chris, Tim, Tim, Tom, Chloe, George, Alison, Lloyd, Rui, Jess, Katie, Paul, Molly, George, Oscar). Everyone who was in the surprise video (Diana; My sister Carli; Poppy; the Lovely Steve; Carli; Ursula; Ian and Veronica; Hazel; Mark; Leah-cat; My Daddy Martin; My Mummy Judie; Ruth; Hugh's parents, Jill and Barry; Hugh's sister Kirsty, brother-in-law David and nephew Alistair; Chloe, Tom, Pete and Julie Bellotti; Christian; The Bury Bombers; Carl; Josh; Luke; Cat, Megan and Josh; Hugh.)

Jordy, Tim, Carli and George who joined in on my last swim.

Hugh and Ursula get a special thanks. They organised my surprise party, got a lot of people to come and watch me swim, got the Bury Free Press involved, got me a special lane in the pool and made me a surprise video. I love them both lots :-)

And also to everyone who has 'liked' my justgiving page, tweeted and facebooked about what I'm doing, shared my video, and generally helped to spread the word :-)

I'm sure there are lots of people I've forgotten. So I'm sorry if you're one of them (I also can't thank specific people who have given me money in the collecting tins as I don't know who you are). But this doesn't mean you're not appreciated. This list is expanding as I remember people. Thank you so much everyone. The response has been overwhelming.

Just Keep Swimming

Monday, 13 June 2011

Day 10

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