Swimming Lake Balaton

This morning I am flying to Budapest ahead of the weekend’s Balaton-átúszás: the annual swimming race across Lake Balaton. It’s about 5km and my wife, Laura, is taking part. Apparently the water is positively balmy at the moment.

Sadly, my shoulder is still a long way from front crawling after an operation in February (part of the reason we haven’t been able to continue any further along the Thames so far this year) so there’s no fear of me embarrassing her by achieving hypothermia despite the weather.

I’ll let you know how we get on with Twitter and you can read more about the swim on the Balaton-átúszás website.

Thanks to Mate on Flickr for the photograph

Tags: Swimming Swimming the Thames

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Tim Moss

Tim Moss has supported over 100 expeditions across all seven continents. He has climbed new mountains, crossed a desert on foot and recently cycled 13,000 miles around the world. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society London and a Guinness World Record Holder. He aims to encourage more people to live adventurously. Read more...

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Tom
July 5, 2012 at 8:38 am
Enjoy Hungary – one of my very favourite countries in Europe.

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Benjamin
July 5, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Good luck to Laura. Playing the guitar and swimming are two things I have not tried hard enough to learn.

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Charlie
July 5, 2012 at 6:00 pm
I’ve always wanted to swim Lake Balaton! Have an awesome time Laura, see you back at the Serps!

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Rita
July 5, 2012 at 7:58 pm
See you at the start at Révfülöp! :)

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Charlie
July 5, 2012 at 9:30 pm
ha ha my tweet got you picked up at http://paper.li/Magyar_Tenger/1305577622 !

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