#9 One Mile Swim

CHALLENGE #9
One Mile Swim (31.08.2013) - CHALLENGE COMPLETED

THE CHALLENGE

Swimming Challengers
Lynn Fardon - Andy Connolly - Zannya Castillo - Jon Venn - Jane Doughty - Kat Lovering - Michelle Harris - Tim Bushell - Ken Wright - Emily Homer - Joey Aonso

This challenge is a unique urban swimming challenge in the capital docklands at the peak of summer….pretty exciting!! It is a 1 mile open water swim as part of the Great British Swim series. It will be a great day out for everybody to enjoy……Live music, picnics and food stalls make this a full day event.

The team will sign up for the 10:30 start, so we can complete the challenge and have time to enjoy the rest of the festivities and of course offer support to the other challengers! It is on the 31st August, so there is plenty of time to train - we are going to be soooo buff for summer!

So come and enjoy - just drop me a line if you want to join. I have developed a training package, so if like me you are starting from no swimming experience there is no need to worry. I am starting regular swimming groups (often followed by a cheeky pint or a bite to eat) in central and south London.

THE CHALLENGER

NAME - Lynn Fardon

As you may know I work in water policy, helping to provide clean drinking water in the UK, that we all take for granted. In other countries people are not as lucky and around 700,000 children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation - that's almost 2,000 children a day. A vast amount of people (about 1.1 billion) live more than a kilometre from their water source, which is often unsafe and they use just five litres a day. To put that in perspective in the UK we use an average of 150 litres of water a day, in Australia it's around 500 litres and in the USA, over 570 litres.

THE CHARITY

Water-aid is a charity that transforms lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities and that’s why we are trying to raise £2000 for them. They are a charity that I became very fond of when I was studying development as part of my degree because they are one of the few charities who focused on working with communities to find long-term solutions that work for the people having to use them. They invest time to make sure the solutions will work and be maintained, rather than making the changes they feel are right, which are likely to fail months down the line.

To find out more visit http://www.wateraid.org/uk/

PHOTOS / MEDIA

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