Oscar's Everyone Day

Sunday 22nd June 2025
In 2021 Oscar the Grouch proposed one day each year where "we unite as a community and EVERYONE records an activity of some sort - a dog walk, a run, a swim, a ride, ski if you want...".

Sadly we lost Oscar in March 2024, so now we dedicate Everyone Day to him. Thank you for the inspiration you gave us Oscar.

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The (new and much improved) Aspire Channel Swim Thread

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LazyDaisy Jan 2019 6:25pm, 8 Jan 2019 25,241 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy I got through the loop eventually Jambono, by which time I had created three Justgiving pages. Obviously I've deleted all but one. I was interested to see that the 'target donation' suggested increased on each attempt, by several hundred pounds a time, until the last one was £1350! I have edited it to the amount I intend to donate, which is considerably more modest. I have an antipathy to people asking for sponsorship for something they want to do for their own enjoyment/challenge/benefit.
LazyDaisy Jan 2019 9:53pm, 28 Jan 2019 25,484 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy Kicked off my channel swim with a measly half a mile. Hope to get in the pool again this week because otherwise I'm going to struggle to get across.
Angus Clydesdale Jan 2019 9:23am, 29 Jan 2019 14,664 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale Apologies. We’ve been away and since we’ve been back I’ve mostly had my hands full nursing sick children. I’ll get the spreadsheet sorted this week.
Luiz Jan 2019 1:55pm, 30 Jan 2019 848 posts	Quote Pin Luiz I'm off the mark, 1km in my lunch break.
Angus Clydesdale Jan 2019 3:13pm, 30 Jan 2019 14,674 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale Ace! I’m still on the beach having spent the last 48hours nursing a sickly child. This will hopefully improve tomorrow.
Luiz Feb 2019 1:31pm, 4 Feb 2019 851 posts	Quote Pin Luiz I've not managed a swim of over a km yet but I'm getting back to almost normal swimming speed after what feels like ages out of the pool. How's everyone else doing? Are we all off the beach?
LazyDaisy Feb 2019 4:19pm, 4 Feb 2019 25,577 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy Annoyingly, I seem to have double logged my first swim of the challenge on the Aspire website as I know I've only swum 1.74 miles so far. I'm back up to 1km at a time now, but really need to go longer. The pool I now swim in isn't very conducive to a nice, steady, long swim though.
Angus Clydesdale Feb 2019 8:20pm, 4 Feb 2019 14,696 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale I’m off the beach! Quick swim on Sunday, mostly swimming alongside whilst coaching my littlest.

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Maintained by Angus Clydesdale

It's New and it's Much Improved (with up-to-date linkies and everything)

WIKI ARTICLE : http://www.fetcheveryone.com/article-view.php?id=547

SPREADSHEET: tba

GROUP: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/groups-view.php?id=1057

DISTANCES:
22 miles
55 ft pool = 2112 lengths (of Hornet's bathtub)
17.5m pool = 2012 lengths (just for Lorraine)
20m pool = 1770 lengths
25m pool = 1416 lengths
33m pool = 1073 lengths
50m pool = 708 lengths

Aspire Charity Page: aspire.org.uk
Aspire Channel Swim official page:
aspirechannelswim.co.uk

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