It's a small world after all!

47 Days to go. 


A fantastic illustration today of how far Global Swimarathon has got in terms of spreading around the world. Today I received this message on our Rotary Club of Grantham facebook page

Janet Mills

I left Grantham 11 years ago to live in Australia and recently moved to Mareeba in Far North Queensland. I`m not in Rotary but have been following the Swimarathon on facebook. I was so thrilled when I found that Mareeba are entering. I am very proud to tell anyone who will listen that I am from Grantham and remember and have supported the early swimarathons. Well done Grantham. I will be at the pool here on the day not swimming but supporting. 

Turns out that Janet was in a travel agent in Mareeba booking a trip back to Grantham, and the lady dealing with her (Ida Portella is it you?) was talking about Rotary and the subject of Swimarathon came up and how Mareeba were going to be joining in - amazing to think that someone from our town all those thousands of miles away will be able to "represent" Grantham at their event - just puts a huge smile on my face!!

It may be a big old world, but it really has been  made a lot smaller through the support and fellowship of the worldwide Rotary family!

Start Spreading the news - 50 days to go!

Into the final 50 days of the countdown - pinch me I still must be dreaming!!

Just to underline the truly global nature of this event, I've just spent some time responding to questions from a journalist at the Mareeba Express newspaper in Queensland Australia!  We have had a phenomenal take up down-under (especially considering the time differences involved) with now 6 Australian and 3 New Zealand clubs confirmed as taking part.

What I really love doing at the moment is "googling" for Rotary Global Swimarathon and looking for new articles about the event- Try it yourself!!

Here's a selection of press and blog coverage - please take a look!!

http://www.ribi.org/news/articles/rotary-global-swimarathon-makes-a-splash-worldwide

http://www.rotaract.org.uk/index.php?cat=content&page=news_sheet&NewsID=111

http://cumbria24.com/news/2011/12/28/rotary-global-swimarathon-end-polio

http://openwaterpedia.com/index.php?title=Global_Swimarathon

http://harrogate-news.co.uk/2011/12/31/swimarathon-benefit-rotarys-polio-eradication-campaign/

http://loneswimmer.com/tag/swimarathon/

http://public-image-action.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-received-tweet-this-week.html

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/local/swimarathon_chairman_receives_an_award_created_in_his_honour_1_3253229

Of course, we want to keep all the communication lines flowing around the world. If you are a twitterer, please use #rotaryglobalswim at every opportunity to talk about the event and please follow us and encourage others to do so at http://www.twitter.com/rotaryglobeswim

Get in touch any time on our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/rotaryglobalswimarathon

And send us an email at rotaryglobalswimarathon@gmail.com

Let's make this the biggest and best Rotary World Wide event ever!!