Category: Swimming
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Swimathon 2015
Swimathon is an annual event run since 1986 in local swimming pools across the country. There are distances of 1.5, 2.5 and 5 km and I thought I would do 5 as otherwise it would be too easy.
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Great North Swim, Windermere 2013
I swam a mile as part of the Great North Swim 2013 at Lake Windermere.
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Lynne Cox swims from USA to USSR in 1987
In the summer of 1987, the American swimmer Lynne Cox braved the freezing waters of the Bering Strait to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union.