1 week to go - only 7 more marathon swims left!

Day 23 of ‪#‎30marathonswims30days‬. Only one more week to go. Had great company today - the awesome foursome kept me going of Kate Nimmo, Paul Smith, Howard James and Simon Griffiths. All phenomenal swimmers and honoured to have their company. Nice photo of my current goggle tan which is only going to get worse! Thanks also to David Granger and Vickie who supported us today. Looking forward to my last week of 10km swims. Back tomorrow at 6.30am….again. Tomorrow is dedicated to two outstanding swim coaches - Simon Cooper and Kevin Walters. I don't often swim with a club these days but if these guys are coaching I'm very happy to turn up. Thanks for all the encouragement and support guys.

Goggle Tan - so cool…...

Awesome Foursome and me 

22 down 8 to go!

22nd consecutive marathon swim completed this morning. Lovely morning swim at the Lido. Thanks to Sean Kinsey who stuck out the whole 10km and looked like he thoroughly regretted it by the end! Looking forward to tomorrow's swim starting at 9am. I'm dedicating it to Koti Ngawati and Melbourne Vicentre Swim Club. Koti is an Australian Olympic swimmer who has just qualified for Rio this year, she has worked amazingly hard and triumphed through adversity to qualify for the olympics, all the best Koti. Melbourne Vicentre was my swim club when I moved to Australia, so many years of hard but happy squad training and swimming with swimmers much much better than me! ‪#‎30marathonswims30days‬

3 weeks done

Day 21 - three weeks of consecutive marathon swims completed. Lots of company this morning and thanks to Karen Hilton for those lovely pictures! Here's an ECG I took today - still in sinus rhythm so all good! Tomorrow's swim is dedicated to H2Open Magazine and Simon Griffiths. So lucky to have this magazine in the UK, I'm not biased I haven't been in it for ages! Hope to see you on Sunday Simon. ‪#‎30marathonswims30days‬. 9 more swims to go all for the wonderful Sandford Parks Lido.

Butt shot 

20 days done, 10 to go

20 consecutive marathon swims now completed. 2/3rds of ‪#‎30marathonswims30days‬ done. Feels like a different muscle group is complaining every day now. Some stats - 20 days, 200km swum, 4000 lengths of the 50m Sandford Parks Lido. Amount of weight loss - 0kg (I'm replacing calories very successfully). Number of lengths breaststroke = 0. Tomorrow is day 21 and is dedicated to the Black Rock Ice-Bergers in Melbourne. Too many English Channel swimmers to count, great bunch of cold water, long distance swimming enthusiasts. Led by the wonderful Albert Bardoel, if you want to get into open water swimming in Melbourne this is where to go to. Just leave your wetsuit at home.

190km in, 30 x 300m is a great way to pass the time.

Day 19 today. This morning's exciting 10km set was a 1km warm up followed by 30 x 300m. Think I'm running out of imagination as the days go by. Thanks to Kim Boon for sticking out the majority of them and the lovely Vickie for jumping in at the end. Tomorrow is a milestone - day 20, 200km and 2/3rd distance. I'm dedicating tomorrow to a group of American long distance swimmers I met and swam with from Spain to Africa. Darren Miller, Jamie Patrick, Jen Schumacher, Kimberly Plewa and Michelle Nelson. Should be back in the water about 1pm tomorrow.

Day 18 - is 6km a warm up?

It seemed to take me 6km just to get going today, finally the shoulders loosened up and the next 4kms felt quite good. I have a lot of built up muscle fatigue now. That's 3600 laps swum out of 6000 or 180km in 18days, just 12 more to go. Tomorrow's swim is another early 6.30am start and is dedicated to Simon Wintle. Simon is my personal soigneur! Apart from providing some much needed sports massage he was an absolutely critical part of our Arch to Arc team last year. If he didn't like swimming breaststroke so much he would be a really top bloke. See you tomorrow Simon, thanks again.

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Day 17 - a struggle to get up this morning!

Day 17 and another 10km swim completed. Great work from David James who stuck in till the end this morning swimming with me. Back tomorrow at 9.30am for number 18. Tomorrow's swim is dedicated to the BLDSA - the British Long Distance Swim Association. Swimming in BLDSA events got me started in long distance swimming and I still love their races, the history and the camaraderie. If you want to get into open water swimming in the UK this is where it all began.