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Facing the English Channel for Surfers Against Sewage ✊
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Our supporters do incredible things. Amber Keegan is a long distance swimmer and a PHD student studying green nanomaterials. Incredibly, after nearly 20 years of competitive swimming, she swam the English channel in July in aid of Surfers Against Sewage. She completed the swim in 8 hours and 36 minutes, making her the third fastest woman in history to achieve this. Epic!
SAS' Yvette Curtis caught up with Amber before her swim to find out just how she was preparing...
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How did you get into long distance swimming, Amber?
"I made Nottinghamshire’s county squad, Nova Centurion, at 9 years old and it progressed from there. For most of my career, I was a pool swimmer (400 Individual Medley), and it was this event that I won a European Junior silver medal for in 2013.
I’d wanted to try open water for years, but being injured, or ill, or clashes with pool competitions had always prevented me from doing it! When I failed to make the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, I realised I had freedom to do what I wanted with the rest of the season, and that meant trying open water swimming in 2022! I competed in my first 10 km in 2023, and several months after, I made World Championships in the event."
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How do you prepare for a channel swim?
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..."It’s also about training my stomach to get used to tolerating taking on lots of drinks like energy gels, carb mix and hot chocolate etc that will make up my ‘food’ when I swim the channel. It’s quite unpleasant at first, but you get used to it!"
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Well done Amber! Thanks so much to all the ocean-lovers who tirelessly support SAS, be it swimming the channel, or cleaning up their blue spaces, we're all in this together. ✊ If you want to take on your own challenge, or read about more epic supporters, take a look here.
For the ocean,
Team SAS
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Surfers Against Sewage
Wheal Kitty Workshops, St Agnes, Cornwall, TR5 0RD
Tel: 01872 553 001
Surfers Against Sewage is a national marine conservation and campaigning charity that inspires, unites, and empowers communities to take action to protect oceans, beaches, waves, and wildlife.
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