All smiles after a watery mile for Charity
Richard and Alan are all smiles after they donned wet suits and took part in the Great East Swim held at Alton Water this month. They swam for a mile to raise much needed funds for Cancer Research. They were also joined by Alan’s wife Alison and the three intrepid swimmers all managed to swim the full mile at the Suffolk water park. ‘We’ve all had to train intensively, twice a week for 4 months, using the facilities at Deben Swimming Pool near our offices in Woodbridge’ Alan explained.
Having been supplied with a safely chip attached to their wetsuits, all three began their swim at 2pm swimming in a clockwise direction with approximately 200 other competitors, swimming the mile-long course marked out on the water park. Richard, almost had to pull out of the race the week before due to a serious throat infection. However he made it to the event and said of his experience ‘Thankfully I managed to swim the mile, although I was disappointed Alan beat me completing it in just 32 minutes - I’m normally much faster than him!’ Between them the three swimmers are pleased to report they managed to raise £600 for their chosen charity Cancer Research.
They could find themselves featured on the Television as Channel 4 have been following the Great Swim around the UK and will be featuring moments from each of the Swim days during their Great Swim Series due to run later this month.
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