Anna Wardley is no sooner dry than she begins planning her next adventure. Relentlessly optimistic and endlessly energetic with a hugely bright swile, Wardley is teaming up with the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust to host the 2014 Solent Swim Challenge. Wardley and the Trust are looking for swimmers to swim 2.5 nautical miles from the British mainland to the
Over the last two years, Anna Wardley has been raising money for the Samaritans (www.samaritans.org), The Ellen McArthur Trust (www.ellenmacarthurcancertrust.org), and Sail Africa (sailafrica.org). She has taken it upon herself to swim around Dragonera (Mallorca, Spain), Portsea (Hampshire, UK), Jersey (Channel Islands), Tiree (Inner Hebrides, Scotland) and
Hampshire-based swimmer Anna Wardley successfully completed the third stage of her Five Island Swim Challenge with a relatively smooth, warm-water (14.2) 41-mile (66 km) circumnavigation of Jersey in the Channel Islands. The 37-year-old completed the circumnavigation in a time of 11 hours 53 minutes. Last year she completed two of the five islands on her
Like ice swimmers throughout the Commonwealth, Anna Wardley went training for a casual swim in a 6ºC (42.8ºF), sea. Her goal: a 60-mile circumnavigation around the Isle of Wight to benefit the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust as the finale of her ‘Five Island Swim Challenge’. With 2 ‘islands’ down (7 miles around Dragonera in Mallorca, Spain and 13 miles
