Tell us a bit about your personal experience with swimming?
I swam as a teenager before I joined the Navy, and once again upon returning from the Navy when I attended university.
I was certainly a better swimmer 10kg heavier! Since then, for around 30 years I didn’t really swim. Then in 2015 I was living in New Zealand and one of my school friends persuaded me to do my first ever long swim (5k) – until this point I had only swam about 400m. I really enjoyed it and I’ve kept going since then. It’s become my focus and I train in an outdoor pool and I complete in open water.