Charlotte Woolmington

Swim 8km in October 2025

First swim in ages!

Today I went swimming for the first time in ages! I wanted to see how I'd do, and I did surprisingly well (I think anyway!)!
The pool is 25m and I did 30 lengths, so a total of 750m! 
8km is 8000m, so this swim was equal to 9.37500% of the 8km challenge!

How many lengths is 8km?

I'm about to join a gym where the pool is 25m long. I've worked out that I need to swim 320 lengths of the pool to equal 8km!! That's 160 up and backs! 
I will blog on here after every visit to the pool keep a tally of how many lengths I am up to.

I’m swimming 8km in October for GOSH Charity!

I’m challenging myself to swim 8km this October to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity).

Childhood should be a time of joy, wonder, curiosity, fun, making friends, making mistakes, and growing into the adults most of us are lucky enough to become. But it’s also fragile, and sometimes all too brief.

That’s why Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity raises funds to help give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, funner and longer. For the children who are treated by Great Ormond Street Hospital every day, for children with rare or complex illnesses, for this generation and all those to come. Because no childhood should be lost to serious illness.

With every kilometre I swim, and every pound raised, we’ll be helping to give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhood possible.

Please help me to achieve my goal by giving whatever you can; no amount is too small to make a difference.


Thank you so much 😊 

My Achievements

Self donation

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First donation

£100 raised

£250 raised

£500 raised

2km logged

4km logged

6km logged

8km logged

Thank you to my Sponsors

£5

Me, Myself & I

GOSH is such a great cause!