Downstream

asks, ‘Have you got a
medal?’
I walk back to the tent to
get changed and it’s now I
appreciate how well it’s all
been organised, the venue
was transformed in less than
two days, thousands of people
are being carefully supervised
swimming round a dock in
half-hour waves. An hour
later I’m home and the first
thing I want to do is have a
bath; I have an urge to wash