Downstream

I’ve signed up to do the
swim for several reasons; it
will be my first experience of
a mass-participation event
and I’ll be in the water with
hundreds of others, many of
them determined racers, when
I don’t like the idea of crowds
and hate the notion of
competing. It will also be a
very different experience
from my lush upper Thames
swim through the Oxfordshire
countryside from Buscot