Mirjam’s Bucket List – A Little Courage

Why I am JOINING A COMPETITIVE RACE

Yesterday I had one of my final training session at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in London

This Saturday I am hoping to complete the biggest challenge of my bucket list so far: swimming a competitive race. I am going to swim the one-mile (1600 meter) Great Newham London Swim. But no, I am not in it to compete, completing it is my main goal!

I signed up for the swim a week after my husband Lusa gave me a bucket list for my 30^th birthday and my first training session was on 20^th April. I managed to swim 60 laps (1500 meter) in about an hour. Continue reading “Four more sleeps before the open swim” →

Family & Lifestyle, Mirjam's Bucket List

An Adventurous Swim

April 24, 2015June 6, 2015 Mirjam Ngoy - Verhage

SWIMMING 1 Mile in the HEART OF LONDON

I can’t believe what I have just done. I have signed up for the Great London Swim! This is to complete challenge 3 of my bucket list: swim a competitive race (at least 1 mile). On the 18th July I will take a plunge in the shadow of the O2 Arena and Canary Wharf, then swim alongside the ExCel centre. This is a 1 mile swim (1.6 km) in the open water.

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