Well after a small 6 km weekend swim at Heron lake as I couldn't go down to Dover (my wife Rachelle has discovered the shops and it is now too expensive) Only kidding!!! I noticed a small growth under my one arm which looked nasty and felt terrible so I stopped training and booked myself into the Doctor.
Well I woke up on the morning I had to go to the doctor and the growth had fallen off and it felt fine. I went anyway as I have a similar growth (subsequently I have learnt they are called skin flaps) under the other arm. I was told it was nothing to worry about and book myself in for minor surgery which I did. Thanks to the NHS I was able to book for the 22nd of November, doesn't really help me as my swim is in September. I will just leave nature to take its course and if it starts chaffing hopefully it will fall off on its own or I go down the DIY route. I think for now I will opt for the former.
On that note, I now have no excuse not to train so I will be back in the pool tonight to do a couple of hundred lengths and then it is either Dover for the weekend or the lakes again.
Apart from these small little growths I am in fine form, have no issues with my Shoulders, wrists, any other parts of my body, people would argue about my sanity though! I am not using any supplements or vitamins yet but that may change soon and my fundraising is going pretty well to date, Long may it last.
I would like to extend a huge congratulations to all the channel swimmers who have already done their swims either successfully or unsucessfully, I admire you all and can't wait to become one of the group.
Till next time
Ciao
Instructions from the general
I'm the confused one scratching my chin
The Channel Swim "WHY?"
The 1st reason
Last year in September my brother must have been bored at work and got hold of me at the office and asked,
“Hey Graeme, how about doing something interesting next year?”
I said
“okay what is it”
Spencer
“How about we swim the channel!!”
Me
“Are you nuts, what drugs have you been on?”
That was the beginning of a conversation that was to change the way my summer for 2008 panned out, much to the disgust of a few friends and much to the detriment of my socialising but hey looking at the summer so far, I suppose it is not a bad thing.
After this conversation, I started to think about where I was in life and that I was a bit overweight: clinically obese according to my doctors. At that time I was training about 10 km a week and the nurse didn’t quite know how to break the news to me about the above fact.
I was also suffering from lower back trouble and it was really annoying me, thanks to the desk job!!!!!
I am the sort of person who cannot just go to the gym so I figured that if I wanted to tone up a bit and strengthen my body in general, this might be a good plan.
The 2nd reason
The other reason I am doing this is the fact that I will be able to raise some money for the desperate people of a country that has been torn apart by a dictator. With unemployment at about 90% and life expectancy in the mid-thirties, the country has gone from being one of the fastest growing economies in Africa in the 1990s, to having the highest inflation of any country in the world, currently sitting at 1 400 000%.
From breadbasket to basket case all in the space of 10 short years.
This country is
Even for the extremely wealthy, the everyday things like going to the shop to buy milk, bread, meat, eggs, butter, vegetables, fuel. Being able to have a romantic dinner with electric lights as opposed to candles, or just have electricity for more than about 2 hours a day is only a distant memory
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