Black dog swimming challenge to save youth lives

Wednesday, 25 January, 2023 - 11:58Less than three weeks to the biggest physical challenge of his life, the Due Drop Hope Challenge to raise money for youth counselling, Mike King is embarking on a gruelling "training session" in Blenheim. Glover was initially poised to swim 300 kilometers from New Brighton Pier to Whites Bay in Marlborough, but a weather bomb changed his plans. Now he has moved inland, and will attempt to swim 20 loops of Lake Rotoiti at St Arnaud. Each loop is approximately 20 kilometers, which means the young Marlburian will have to cover a whopping 400 kilometers to complete his latest challenge, which begins on January 28th and ends (hopefully) on Waitangi Weekend. In 2020, his "Black Dog Swim" saw him swim the 61.5 kilometers length of the Queen Charlotte Sound and back again, raising more than $60,000 for I Am Hope.