john

So the evening of 20 July 2006 saw four finely honed athletes (me, Cathie, Robin and Alex) head off to the Virgin Gym at Blythe Valley.

The mission - to swim a mile each for Sport Relief. OK, so that Walliams chappie swam the English Channel in 10.5 hours, which is seriously impressive, but here at bit10 we’re all tied up for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, so a mile was more than enough for us.

Besides, it took me an hour to do the mile, I’d still be doggy paddling somewhere near Folkstone now if I’d tried the Channel!

So a HUGE thank you to everyone who sponsored both me and the rest of the team. Between us we raised just over £300, or 0.0025% of Sport Relief’s £12.5m total. Actually we raised a bit more since those kind people at the Treasury pay the gift aid on top of donations. Incidentally David Walliams raised over £1m, an amazing 10% of the total Sport Relief donations!

Also thanks to the helpful people ot Virgin Solihull who let us use their facilities for free, on the promise that they got a mention!

For those interested in results Alex was fastest, with Cathie only a couple of lengths behind. Robin was third with yours truely being laggard by about 10 lengths. You know the old saying (often used by loosers) - “it’s the taking part that counts”! 

In training for the Channel next year…..

 

John

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