Mike
As PN has alluded to, enrol on your activities and apply now. As long as you can justify your actions, all will be rosy. If you fail to get in this time round, nothing lost and you can re-apply. Take a year out and get turned down, you've wasted a year. And how keen can you be if you delay your application a year to skydive and walk around Dartmoor? Just playing Devil's Advocate.
And well done on your results.