She drove home because she had entered The Great Salford Swim, a mile swim in the Salford Quays.
"No walls, no lanes, no chlorine, just the great outdoors"
It was the first time Salford had hosted this event and it was very well organised, it had to be because there was a high number of entries too on account of the Great North swim in Lake Windermere being cancelled due to the prescence of blue algae.
Doesn't this water look inviting!?!!? (well it is nice and shiny) ...
...at 14 degrees wetsuits were compulsory. BRRRRRR!
She was raring to go...
...with toenails painted to match her wetsuit and a micro chip on her ankle to record her time (OMG OMG OMG she was so quick...)
They had a ten minute warm up (BRRRRR "warm up???") to acclimatise their bodies to the 14 degrees...
...then into line ready to swim the mile...
AND THEY'RE OFF!!!!!!! (OMG OMG OMG she was so quick!!!)
SHE WON!!!!!! She was the first of the blue hats home!!!
N.B. there were 150 blue hats!
Amazing swim, she lead most of the way. One mile swum in 24 minutes 22 seconds (and this, after 6 weeks of Summer in China and NO training!!!WOW!!)
As she came out of the water she was greeted by a camera and microphone!!!!
Channel 4 in November folks!!!
Out of over 2,000 swimmers she was 49th overall
In her age group she came 38th
Out of all the females, ALL THE FEMALES, 13th
OUT OF ALL THE BLUE HATS.......FIRST!!!!!!!!
BRILLIANT! Our daughter was in the top 50 whoop whoop!
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CONGRATULATIONS! I think just being brave enough to jump in that water is stunning enough - but swimming and winning...quite incredible.
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