Philip O'Reilly
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Just Keep Swimming


A good friend had a serious cancer scare last year. Thankfully, Guy’s now come through 11 cycles of chemo and is already fit enough to consider doing something quite amazing to give back to the doctors and nurses who saved his life. To raise funds for Cancer Research, he’s swimming a mile every day in May.

Some of the swims will be open water, some are taking place in pools — but each day, for 31 days, Guy is going to swim a mile. I’m terrible at long distance anything, but swimming in particular I find tough. However, I’ve signed up to swim a mile with Guy on May 9th and I’m really looking forward to it.

The goal is to raise as much as possible for a fantastic organisation that is working hard to beat cancer. So if you would like to support the great work that Cancer Research are doing, I would be extremely grateful.

Now, I really need to start training…