The Big Optometry Blog: Outdoor swimming can be a year round pleasure

Last year Optician’s sporting challenge to raise money for Blind Veterans UK suffered somewhat from inclement weather forcing the main event, a UK-based half Ironman distance triathlon, to be cancelled. In a bid to hit the ground running next summer, and take advantage of some pretty good winter weather, Optician’s editor, Chris Bennett, that’s me, has been keeping up the miles in readiness for the 2019 challenge.

The A race for this year is the Alpe d’huez triathlon which takes place, not surprisingly, around Alpe d’Huez in France. With the race day set in late July there should be no repeats of the cancellation suffered for the Sussex Original triathlon last September.