04/06/2026
Endurance progress isn’t dramatic that’s for sure…we’re playing a long game, ticking off one session at a time.
Repetitive, slow, tiny decisions all day every day, adding up. I was reminded last week when over analysing EVERY session ‘Anna, it really isn’t that deep’.
A bit like the fundraising thing in all honesty, a long old game! That’s SO much harder than I thought and genuinely the hardest thing about all of this!
I think sometimes people imagine charity fundraising as one huge moment or one huge donation and maybe I naively went into this thinking it would be more straightforward than it is. Do the thing and the fundraising will come. Actually, far from it, it’s a learning curve for sure! Lots of smaller acts of support that slowly building into something really meaningful, but we still have LOTS of work to do.
The money being raised for will help fund free cancer rehabilitation support for young people across the UK, while also improving accessibility and grow the programme so we can support even more people in the future.
To put it into perspective - £5,000 could help around 6 young people access support through the programme while also investing in systems and accessibility improvements that could eventually help hundreds more every year.
That makes every donation, event, share and conversation feel important, even the ones that seem small. What you do is NEVER too small. It means SO much.
Anyway… back to eating enormous amounts of spaghetti and pretending I’m a mermaid on long swims just to get through 🧜🏽♀️ fun fact…I even have mermaid nails at the moment to try and channel some positive swimming energy!
