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My amazing nephew Zac as the first Brighton Olympic Torch bearer. To say I (we) are proud of him is an understatement. At 17 years of age to be chosen as an Olympic beacon in his home town shows what an amazing man he is turning into. Zac you Poppa is smiling down on you my darling
22 days to go....
My two hour (2.01.34) adjudicated swim all done; thankfully. This morning was great for the team as the sea was a lot calmer than yesterday; still bumpy, but swimmable. Lindy was amazing as she suffers the cold more than the rest of us and for her to do a 2 hr in 14.6 degrees (which is what is was today) was so incredible and I am so very proud of her. She did hers at about 6am. Then at 6.30am James went in and did his 2hrs. Soon after Shoichi and Leo went in and did theirs. With Alex already done it was just me. I couldn't miss Zacs big moment so I had to wait until 8am to go in. I was not particularly looking forward to it as I was on my own, it was late for me as I prefer 7am, I had not eaten or drunk anything at all since 6pm yesterday and had only about 3 hrs sleep - so not the best frame of mind. However I went in hopeful and before too long I realised why I love swimming. Being on my own, whilst not particularly safe sometimes is very good for the mind. It is great thinking time as long as you can switch your mind off from the actual swimming; which I managed to do mostly. I swam from the palace pier to the red buoy at the end of the West Pier, then back to the Brighton Centre, then turned and went back to the Red Bouy (trying to fill up the 2 hrs!), then turned and went back to the Palace Pier, then around the pier and over to the buoy the other side, then through the pier and over and around the 3 bouys on my side and then back in; total swim time 2hrs, 1 minute and 34 seconds. The tide was quite strong to the East, s it took at 58 minutes to get to the West Pier and then only 25 minutes back, so there was filling in with the buoys afterwards, but the swim was done and I was greeted on the beach by Fiona and LB; a very welcome and unexpected greeting. LB particularly was so fab that he waited for us all to finish. Fiona said she had to call the coast guard at one point because they lost me! How funny! Apart from usual morning swims and gyms for the rest of the week, the next big thing will be our boat ride on James boat this Friday where we will be doing an hour each from the boat. Not long now and getting excited.
What a great day; Zac doing his torch run and the Channel relay team all being approved. Fantastic!
Well done team! I'm honoured to have seen them all from start to finish this morning - and well done Zac, quite a day!
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