Monthly Archives: August 2013

  Bere Island, this Saturday, it’s public, it’s in the media, it has to happen! Huge thanks to the Castletownbere RNLI for all their help and advice. It’s for them I am doing this. Having watched two swimming colleagues become marathon … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Myrtleville Swimmers:
On my few long swims in the wetsuit last year, I used cold drinks in milk bottles.  In togs this year and needing warm drinks, the milk bottles don’t work, so I took Carol Cashell’s advice and…

Such a fantastic Read… A Brilliant account of Ellas English Channel Swim 🙂 English Channel swim 4.8.13: The story.

As I said in my other Blog note, I’m setting my sights on Swimming around Bere Island in West Cork (15m/24km). Mum is from Castletownbere area (Very West Cork!), and I still have plenty of cousins, Aunts, Uncles living there, … Continue reading →

It’s Strange, planning for big swims took up so much of my time over the past few months, that now I must find something new!. July was busier than I thought, Came back from Dover, went back to work – … Continue reading →