As you are all sponsoring me, I thought I would start a blog, so you can track my progress and see how I'm getting on!

However, if you haven't sponsored me yet, here's some details below of what I'm doing and how you can (pretty please) sponsor me!

On the 27th April 2013, I will be swimming 5k in the BT Swimathon for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

You can sponsor me at www.justgiving.com/sam-denny

OR - you can text "SAMD80" followed by the amount "£XX" to 70070

Sunday 7 April 2013

Sunday Swim...

Hello everyone!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, in all honesty, I haven't had a chance to get to the pool due to Uni commitments :-( I have however been running a lot recently, so it's not all bad news!

Today, I decided that a late afternoon swim may be a very good time to go, as the weather was SO nice, that perhaps the pool may be quiet! This however was not the case, and even resulted in me getting PUNCHED IN THE HEAD!!!

Overall, I swam 2,500m in 58minutes! So I'm getting faster, but it's still not the 3k in 60minutes I am currently aiming for! It still means that I'll be swimming 5k in <2hours (just!), so as long as I manage that on the day, I will be a very happy bunny!

Again, please PLEASE sponsor me if you haven't already, and if you have and you have a spare £10 lying around, please sponsor me AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

Only 20 days to go!

Lots of love and kisses, Sam xo

Sunday 10 March 2013

New fundraising target :-)

I've managed to raise £825!! So, with 7 weeks to go, I have decided to raise my fundraising goal from £1,000 to £1,400!!!
If you haven't already sponsored me, then please dig very deep, and if you have already sponsored me, then PRETTY PLEASE see if you can spare anymore!!!!!!

Friday 8 March 2013

Give it some welly!!

SO! I have just completed a 4,500m swim in 1h58! Thats a total of 180 laps of a 25m pool!
Needless to say I am extremely pleased with myself!

If you haven't already sponsored me, you can find the link at the top of this page! As it's pretty obvious I will be able to complete 5k in the 2h30 given, my goal now is to swim 5k in under 2 hours, and, if possible, as close to 1h30 as I can get. So sponsor me more and I will make sure I swim faster!!!!!

Friday 22 February 2013

Getting faster!

Hello! So, again unfortunately this week I had to keep my swim quite short, but I swam 1,750m in 35 minutes. A whole 250m more than last week in the same time! I reckon I could swim 5k in an hour and a half if I keep improving at this rate!!! :-D

Friday 15 February 2013

Short but sweet :-)

Todays swim was a little shorter as I have so much uni work to do! But I swam 1500m in 35 minutes! Not bad, at this rate I'll be finishing 5k in under 2 hours!!!
First time using the AquaCoach, I've got to say, it's well worth the money! Now I can get into my stroke without worrying whether I'm counting the right lap or not!

Friday 8 February 2013

Might need a maths lesson...

This week I have managed 3,000m in 80 minutes. I'm starting to think maybe my counting is off a little seeing as I managed 3,500m in 70 minutes last week!
Therefore I have gone out to the Speedo store and bought this bad boy! Now, all of my future swims will be properly counted by my little watch!
I just wish I wasn't so much of a kit freak though, if there's a gadget/accessory/piece of kit needed for a sport or any activity I start, I always have to have all the kit, usually no matter what the price tag is on it!

Friday 1 February 2013

My first update!

So, I've decided to start this blog to track my training and keep you all updated with my progress! I started training the first week of January, however it was only really today that I actually started counting how far I was swimming!
Today I managed to swim 3,500m in 70 minutes. No idea how! Definitely on track for 5k at the end of April!!