Swimming basically. Quite a long way. Across the whole Solent.
And ok, lets be honest, it isn't like it is as big as the channel or the ocean, but we reckon it is far enough. About 5km's in total. And given the added challenges of very strong tides and sodding great big boats that we need to avoid, it should be a fair old bit of a challenge.
The plan is to swim early morning one weekend in the summer. At the moment we have got a couple of different weekend's penned in for June but we won't know exactly which until nearer the time as we need good conditions - swimming in a force 9 hoolie won't be that much fun...
And its not all shit and giggles (because it sounds so much fun already right?) - we are doing it for a good cause - Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Click here and you can go to our justgiving page - sure you've done it before - all easy, secure and if that's not enough incentive, the kind Mr Darling will give CFT all of your donation without skimming off any tax - well it just doesn't get better than that now does it?
If I could just work out how to get a comment posted (have clicked more links than I can tell you about), I would like to be the first to point out the obvious - you are clearly becoming more and more insane Simon. Perhaps hormonal? And dragging yet another poor innocent victim along with you. Every year you seem to recruit some new unsuspecting friend into another mad scheme. Maybe he was tempted by the goose fat idea? (yes your grandfather would have been proud of you - though that fat was better when it had been used to grease the planks to pull Miranda (boat, not woman for those who may not realise) up and down the beach a few times).
ReplyDeleteAnyway all luck to you both - do avoid the container ships and hoepfully have more than Christopher in a pram dinghy as your nanny boat, carrying Su with a thermos of hot chocolate.
Lilla