Sink...or swim?? Trip to The Thames

Swim training has upped a gear with only 6 weeks to go until 'Are you having a LAFF?!' swim team hits the open waters in their attempt to swim to France.

Unfortunately we're a man down, with Barry suffering from a shoulder injury, but battling on!
In the past few weeks we've made it to Brighton for our first group sea swim of the year (happily also on the hottest day of the year!), started training in the freezing cold waters of Tooting Bec and Brockwell lidos and last weekend, for a group dip in the Thames.

As we waited on the banks early on Saturday morning, wondering what lay beneath those murky waters, we all would have easily chosen treacherous open waters over the petrol and shopping bag filled Thames...but in the name of training and charity, in we went!







And it was COLD!!!! and we SCREAMED LIKE GIRLS!!! and we disturbed lots of breakfasting tourists at the Monkey Island Hotel and dodged canal boats galore, but we did manage to stay in and swim for just over an hour, our longest time yet in cold open water. Hurrah!






And now, for your amusement, here we have a selection of photos taken after the hour of cold water was up - the proof we are actually going to do this swim...!!























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Are you having a LAFF swim team. Currently on track for 24 hours swimming in cold water to get to France. Bring it on.