Four-and-a-half years ago, the London Olympics inspired me to start swimming again.
I’d always had lessons as a child, but got fed up because I couldn’t conquer freestyle. Starting again 25 years later, I spent two years training with Fiona Ford’s squad in Richmond and became quite competent, though I never actually got so far as to enter any races. So when my family and I left London and moved to the hotter and sunnier climes of Charleston, South Carolina, I decided that I really needed to put this right.