Lorraine Candy’s Scilly Swim Challenge

‘Postcards From Midlife’ co-host Lorraine Candy joined her tribe of middle-aged women to take on the epic 15km Scilly Swim Challenge – and a voyage of self-discovery

Nervously standing on the edge of the white sandy bay at Porthcressa Beach on St Mary’s I had one phrase rolling around in my mind: ‘eat the elephant’. That’s what I was here to do on this 15km sea swim over two days.