Swim challenge: 44 miles (70km) in three months

This week we embark on a new challenge to raise money for Diabetes UK and swim the equivalent of France and back while we do... 

The Diabetes UK Swim 22 challenge is an annual event in which swimmers take on the Channel - or more precisely the distance of the Channel - in three months. We thought to ourselves, why not go there and back together and do 44 miles in that time? 

And this week the sun came out, the lido got warmer and we began the work. Day one, yesterday, we managed a mile between us (that's 1.6km in real money) and we will keep on ploughing up and down until we get to the full 44. For more information and sponsorship, we have set up a Just Giving page.