Colting is the goal – after six weeks of swimming – Expressen

Colting is the goal – after six weeks of swimming – Expressen

On Friday, took the health profile Jonas Coltings 600 km long swim out .

For six weeks, the 41-year-old Borås breaker swum between Stockholm and Gothenburg.

– It has been extremely hard. Just yesterday, I was sitting in a car and cried and did not want to continue. But it feels great to donate 700,000 to charity, he said.

6 July jumped Jonas Colting, 41, in the water at City Hall in Stockholm. On Friday, took swim at 600 kilometers out – at Opera in Gothenburg.

– There was a sense of equal parts of relief, joy to be clear and gratitude. There have been so very many who helped me along the way. And then I feel a lot of pride that we have collected SEK 700 000 to WaterAid, says it now torre, Boras breaker.

“A lot of dark moments”

In the last six weeks have he almost constantly been in the water on the trek along the canal. And it’s been tough.

– There have been so many dark moments, every day has been tough in its own way. Yesterday I was sitting in a car and lipade and refused to swim further when Göta River invited to the worst I’ve seen in simförhållandena principle.

But the team has been behind Jonas Colting and ensured that the journey has not ended in prematurely.

The hope was to swim in a penny per meter, ie SEK 600 000 to the charity WaterAid, which works for clean water and sanitation in the Third World. And that goal was suggested by a wide margin.

Sims soon again

– This type of philanthropy is very rewarding, as the athlete is accustomed to think of himself and do things for their own sake, but you can use a project like this to something much more so it’s fantastic, says Jonas Colting.

And the finish will be celebrated with dinner and festivities. But the fairest of all in the finish date it will be to go to bed with the knowledge that he will not have to go up on Saturday morning and swim.

– No one will go and drop me off at any rock, but now I can just enjoy.

Despite the recent weeks’ challenges in water he will soon jump into the water again. So any water overdose has not happened.

– But then it will be in a pool, where you never have more than 25 meters to a finish.