Wish Me Luck for my BIG SWIM!

Hi! I hope you're well and happy today! :-)

It's my Swimathon day today! So this is a very quick post before I get ready... I'm really looking forward to it but don't feel 100% well, which is a bit of a pain but there ya go.

So to celebrate (what is life for??), here's a video of some of the music from one of my favourite video games: Jet Set Radio which came out for the Dreamcast.  I love the music from this game and if I could get the soundtrack on CD (or even a download) I'd be a very happy lady!  But thanks to YouTube and Renegade466isback, I can enjoy the games again without dusting off the old Dreamcast, and turning it upside down (which is what we'd have to do to get it to work again, apparently... don't ask!)


Best wishes
Joey xx

Look - No Armbands! (a big swim)

Swimmers during learn to swim week, at a suburban swimming pool, probably Wellington region, ca 1939

In just over 5 weeks I will be doing a long-ish sponsored swim for charity, as part of the national annual Swimathon event. The charity is called Marie Curie Cancer Care, and they provide special nurses who care for people with cancer in their last weeks of life, in the patients' own homes. The Marie Curie nurses do an invaluable and extremely difficult job, and I aim to raise around £100 for them by doing this sponsored swim.

I did the Swimathon last year (Little Tiger is wearing the medal below, which everyone gets just for completing the swimathon) and I’ve decided to swim the same distance, 2.5 km (so that’s 100 lengths of a 25 metre pool, or approx. 1 ½ miles). I found it do-able, but for a few days after I felt really exhausted. So at the moment I’m training myself up by doing longer and longer swims at the same pool where I’ll be doing the Swimathon – at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre which was originally built for the 1991 World Student Games, and boasts one of Europe’s deepest diving pools at 5.85 metres.

I’m not a fast swimmer at all, actually I’m pretty slow so if I manage the swim in less than 1 ½ hrs I’ll be happy. I do get quite jealous of folks who can swim fast and with a beautiful technique, then do a fast flip-turn at the end of the lane… Well, all I can do is my best!

If you would like to sponsor me, please go to my sponsorship page: Joey's Swimathon Page and you can give by debit or credit card. If you’re a bit shy and don’t want your name to show for everyone to see, just untick the box which says "I give permission for my name to be displayed...", and your donation will show as “anonymous”.

Thank you reading!
Best Wishes
Joey xx