Katherine Kemp

I did my first pool swim today!  I ran the 3.3km to the pool, did my swim, then ran home again :) It's a 25 meter pool and I did 20 lengths, which means I swam 500 meters, in about 25 minutes.  I would have swam for longer, but I wanted to eat lunch.  Another day complete.  I have swum 1.9 km now (the two 0.4km swims are really 0.35, but that just rounds up to 0.4) and I have 21 days left to go and 3.1km left to swim.  It is possible! 

Went to Loch Ness today, on this beautifully calm day!  No rain, no wind, just sunshine... although I arrived at Loch Ness a bit too late for the sunshine.  They were setting up a wee bonfire for their late Guy Fawks celebrations.  Dores beach was quite quiet, I didn't see other swimmers.  I felt like a wimp today and wore my wetsuit.  Just as well I did, because I was swimming for over 40 minutes!  Along the beach at Dores and back again.  I swam a wee but too far out into the loch, so swimming back to shore was quite a long way.  But a good swim, amazingly calm water!!!

Perhaps foolishly, I thought I might try to do a fundraising swim for Dementia UK.  So I made this fundraising page!  The aim is to swim 5km in November.  It's really just an excuse to swim, and hopefully make some money for a charity too.

Thanks guys!