Sunday, 11 September 2011

Day 101

I did 100 today. As I'm reaching the end of my swim, I decided to check my maths, and as you may know, I'm not that great at it (see here, here and here). So I have a spreadsheet to help me. Today I checked my spreadsheet and it seems I have done almost 300 more than I thought. Now, as I'm doing this for charity and everyone has been very generous, I don't want to end up not doing the full distance that everyone has sponsored me to do. So I got my mummy, who is an accountant (selfishly didn't pass on the maths-genes to me!). she checked the formulas on the spreadsheet, and the number that it had said I'd done compared to the number I'd said on the blog that I'd done. She found that all of the numbers agree until the 27th August, at which point I seem to forget a few days' worth of lengths on the blog. From the 29th August until today, there is an almost 300 length difference every day between the blog-length and the spreadsheet-length, the same number every day. So, I actually have less than 1500 lengths to do in the next 12 days!!! I'm glad that, for once, my mistake is going in my favour. It's a great boost. 7712 down, 1494 to go

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