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Mike's 13km Thames Marathon Swim

By Michael Lenton Join Me

Help me reach my goal of £2,000

I'm fundraising for the future of hospitality.

The Thames Marathon Swim, Henley to Marlow, 13km and i'll be swimming it, 11th August 2024.

I'm attempting Raise Money for 2 great causes, here I'm raising money for The Burnt Chef Project, an organisation set up to tackle mental health stigma in the hospitality industry. It's something very close to my heart and I would love your support!


This is also raising a flag for my teams at Cubitt House and the part they play in making Hospitality a better place to work.

I spend much of my time at work with Cubitt House checking in on the teams and making sure they are in the Happy or at least reasonably content!

Ensuring they are in the right place and have the right tools to do the job, and that they all able to succeed in doing a great job in what can be a very challenging industry.


Cheers to all of them!


(i'm running 2 fundraisers side by side, you can find my other page here for the RNLI!) www.justgiving.com/page/michael-lenton-1712608867579

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Training for the Marathon Swim

Friday 10th May
First Blog Post,
Training focused.

I have tried to stick to a fairly simple training regime of 3 swims a week, to help maintain consistent and discipline.

Overcomplicating can lead to unnecessary failure.

Using a periodic method, 3 blocks of 4 weeks to steadily increase the workload with rest weeks to allow the gains to embed and body to recover, 
Over the years, learning to recover properly has always been a challenge.


General weekly structure.
1: Fast interval swim
2: Long Swim, with minimal rest 1km sets for 2/3/4km, increasing every week
3: Random set of whatever feels good, E.G.  8 x 400m progressing

This week should have been a rest week, but due to running the pub in the park event next week, I delayed and designated that a rest week, as training will need to take a back seat for that week

Follow on strava below for more details 

https://strava.app.link/ibViMs3zuJb

Thank you to my Sponsors

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Eric Cliff

Well Done !

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Simon Otto

Well done Mike

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Samantha Hall

Enjoy the challenge - know you will! Expectation (own and others) together with and a strong ‘pusher’ energy can be mentally exhausting for anyone but in the hospitality industry must be turbocharged. Great cause xx

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Richard Sandiford

Good luck and well done for getting this far chef👍

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Patrick Cummins

Onya mate! Legendary stuff. Sorry I couldn’t donate more im medically retired due to my mental health issues so I’m constantly on a tight budget. Best wishes to you and the whole Lenton clan.

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Liz Flynn

Well done Mike!!

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Michael Lenton

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Ana Carvalho

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Ellie

Woohoo ! 💪🏊‍♂️

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Karen Maclean

Good luck! Such a worthy project.

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Chris Fordham-smith

Well Done Chef!! Amazing achievement

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Lorna Macpherson-johnston