Purple Ladies

2026 November Swim Challenge

What a legend Hazel is!

🌟  Mother smashed out 70 lengths on Wednesday!

She's doing amazingly! Will add it to our total on Sunday for the week. We are halfway through and due to other commitments and pool closure times we have 2 swims left to get to our goal! 🏊‍♀️

I've not been feeling so well so I haven't managed to do any extra this week as was originally planned - we shall keep swiming!

Keep on moving...

Today's swim is brought to you with dehydration and confusion. Definitely need to make sure I drink more water before going and I didn't half the swim with my goggles painfully upside down with no idea 🙃 

🏊‍♀️ Still I managed 80 lengths and mother smashed out 66! Not only that but she went earlier on the week for another 60 to add to the total! She's flying through!

So 348 lengths complete! That's 8,700 m just 6,300 to go! 😍

First day got off to a flying start!

We got really lucky in our lane to have nobody join us which meant we could just keep going. Which was actually really hard!

To put this in perspective mum usually swims about 50 in an hour and I'll do 60 comfortably... we hit 62 and 80... so big news we are going to up our target to 15k!

142 out 600 done.

Oof all that after two brutal exercise classes for me and mum cooking dinner ... its off for a bit of rest before the next swim!

Mum's on board and we are really excited

We are so excited to get swimming. Dementia has got a few people in our family, it can be an alienating and scary disease. Dementia uk help so much to make sure people feel less isolated so we are proud to be raising awareness for them and improving our swim speeds at the same time!

We've worked out it's 400 lengths for 10k - but we are going to do a few more if we can find the time to go more than once a week.

Let's do this!!!

We're swimming for Dementia UK

This November, we're swimming and raising funds for families affected by dementia. We are taking on the challenge for Dementia UK, the specialist dementia nursing charity, and would be grateful for your support.

£33 could fund an hour with a dementia specialist Admiral Nurse, helping a family with practical solutions and emotional support.

Thank you!

Thank you to our Sponsors

£50

Denise Peel

£33

Steven Smith

£19

Mayuri Raja

£10

Sian Morris

£10

Claire Walker

£10

Drew Willoughby

£10

Hayley Thomas

£10

Toby Lawson

£10

Molly Cunningham

£10

Karl Kellner

Good luck Hazel and the team! Great cause 👏 x

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£10

Zoe Lawson

£5

Lynn Marley

£5

Helen Wright

£5

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