{"id":25162,"date":"2006-07-23T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/07\/23\/thames-swim-through-abingdon\/"},"modified":"2006-07-23T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T16:04:00","slug":"thames-swim-through-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25162","title":{"rendered":"Thames Swim through Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06072307.jpg\" \/><br \/>Lewis Gordon Pugh, 36, has been attempting to be the first person to swim the length of the Thames. The 203-mile journey began at the river&#8217;s source in Kemble, Gloucestershire and will finish at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. He swam through Abingdon today passing St Helens Wharf at 16:40.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06072305.jpg\" \/><br \/>On <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090524065548\/http:\/\/investecfunds.com:80\/links\/investecthameschallenge\/site\/progress.html\">his blog <\/a>he says <em>&#8216;I feel today that a corner has been turned. After the difficulties of the weekend, I began to really recover on Sunday evening, and some strong swimming brought us from Sandford Lock to Abingdon after a 4k swim. We stopped to pick up supplies in Abingdon, I rested on the boat for two hours. Although we have put a stop to any media activity while I focus on my swimming, interest from passers by is very high and during the Abingdon stretch I spoke to quite a few people, met a walker who was walking the length of the Thames, as well as a swan-shaped pedalo that was trying to paddle from Lechlade to the sea, and stopped for several photographs with passers by.&#8217;<\/em><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06072306.jpg\" \/><br \/>As I watched he changed his stroke from crawl to breast stroke passing where the Ock enters the Thames, then reverted to crawl at Margaret Brown&#8217;s gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Gordon Pugh, 36, has been attempting to be the first person to swim the length of the Thames. The 203-mile journey began at the river&#8217;s source in Kemble, Gloucestershire and will finish at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. He swam through Abingdon today passing St Helens Wharf at 16:40.On his blog he says &#8216;I feel today that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}