Simon John Parkin
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Extra Channel Swim Challenge complete
This wasn’t one of my challenges for this year but I’ve done it by accident. I’ve just swum to France! Well, not really, but over the last 8 months, in training for, and including, my open water swims, I’ve swum 35470 metres, that’s about 22 miles, that’s 1418 lengths of a 25m length pool, in
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20th Challenge complete
My first mile-long outdoor swim completed. I did it in the beautiful town of Shrewsbury down the River Severn for the Severn Mile Swim. I panicked when I got in and it took a while to calm down and relax into it. More of a type-2 fun this one (more enjoyable after completion) but I’m
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19th Challenge complete
I’ve gone as far as I can presently go in making my family tree. I previously knew very little about my family history – even my dad’s immediate family was never really spoken of – so I really had to pin my parents down to get all the information they knew. From this I managed
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