{"id":4212,"date":"2014-07-10T15:02:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2014-07-29T23:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T06:14:38","slug":"wendy-burton-to-swim-the-english-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/07\/10\/wendy-burton-to-swim-the-english-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Burton to swim the English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent retiree Wendy Burton<\/strong> has taken up a new challenge, one that she has dreamed about for decades.<\/p>\n

Here’s her report:<\/p>\n

“I have qualified to swim on a relay team in the English Channel. This has been a dream of mine since I was nine years old and attempted a one-mile swim around Mary Todd Island in Victoria.\u00a0 My training began (again) in 2008 after my stint with hospital stays and such. I was on track for a solo effort when things went on hold [for family health reasons]. It seemed my dream was drifting to the very back burner.<\/p>\n

“My brother qualified last summer with a four-person team to swim this summer. This April, one of the team had an accident with his motor-bike and he broke his leg. The team asked me if I would attempt to get qualified in June. I said yes and started training in open water in April (water temp 11 degrees Celsius).<\/p>\n

“I qualified on June 15, and my application was accepted a week later by the Channel Swim Association. We have a window of five days, July 20-25, 2014, and we have first refusal, so we hope to go early in our window rather than late. We have a four-person team, so I will be one hour in and then three out and then one in and three out … until we land somewhere in France.<\/p>\n

“I will be the second oldest woman to swim in the Channel. Not the record I was hoping for, but I’ll take it!”<\/p>\n

You can follow the progress of Wendy and her fellow swimmers on Facebook, by liking the page titled Salish Sea Swimmers in the English Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent retiree Wendy Burton has taken up a new challenge, one that she has dreamed about for decades. Here’s her report: “I have qualified to swim on a relay team in the English Channel. This has been a dream of mine since I was nine years old and attempted a one-mile swim around Mary Todd … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}