Liam's English Channel Solo Swim

Well we are just finished 8 days of swimming in the Sandycove Swim Camp, organised by Ned Dennison the week was a tremendous sucess with swimmers from Ireland the Uk and the US all enjoying a fantastic week of weather and some great swims to boot.
I swam close to 85km last week and by Sunday i was knackered (thats over and back the channel on a bad day)
We swam every morning at 6am in Sandycove and every evening we swam in a different venue Ballycroneeen, Fermoy, Iniscarra lake, Inchegelagh with everone's highlight being the Lough Hyne Swim in Baltimore.
I'm taking a few days off now to let the body recover (slight injury to shoulder) and a massage booked tonite.
Huge Thank you to Ned and all the volunteer's

Well nearly all the training is now done, a few more big swims this weekend and the it will be my tapering period.We have had a fantastic few weeks with 2 x 2hr swims per day in Sandycove and the water temperature has come right up to a point were we can now wear shorts and tee shirt after the swim.
The Swimcamp organized by Ned Dennison has been fantastic, getting into the water with loads of lunatic's like myself and trashing it out for hours...some fine battles have been had and the up-shot of it all is that I know i'm as ready as i'm gonna be right now to tackle this Channel.

Life is so busy at the moment with some fantastic swims over the last few weeks that I am finding it hard to keep up the blogging.

Sorry

Well we had a fantastic result with the Racenight last week where I believe we have raised close to €9000.00 ....

It was a great night (twas like a wedding as I knew nearly everyone in the bar)
A huge thank you to all who showed up on the night and to those who sponsored a horse thank you.

Thank you to those who donated prizes and special word of thanks goes to Nime for the program Sean for the drawing and to Kaye foir putting up with me (last minute.com)