Triumph at the Big Chill Swim 2015

February 1, 2015 9:44 pm

We’ve just returned from a fantastic weekend in the Lake District where several YOS members competed at the Big Chill Swim in Windermere.

Ice MilersIt seemed the event was full of Ice Milers including our YOS resident Ice Milers and Swim Your Swim Coaches Alistair and Leon, YOS member and the world’s first disabled Ice Miler Jonty Warneken and Chill Swim’s own Colin Hill

Saturday’s races started for YOS with Michelle Millard, Shelby Donohue and Sally Buck all competing in the 120 metre event. All swimmers put in great efforts and Michelle won not only her race but also came third in her category and received a medal in the end of day prizegiving.

Following the earlier events we retreated to the beautiful Langdale Chase hotel for a quick dip from the jetty and a spot of lunch. Huge thanks as always to Thomas and his team for their wonderful hospitality and making all our YOS swimmers very welcome. The Langdale is one of our favourite places in the lakes.

After lunch The YOS relay team (Jane Crosby, Leon Fryer, Rebecca Crosby and Adam Chatfield) took to the water dressed as minions. Despite the visual impairment of the glasses and the fact that some of the team were a little less acclimatised they all put in a fantastic effort in their event. Afterwards they bumped in to some other Minions and YOS members from Leeds.

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FullSizeRender-2Finally on Sunday Wendy Figures gave an amazing performance in the IISA 1K British Championships winning with a time of 14 minutes and 31 seconds.

It has been a great weekend for YOS swimmers, we even caught some of the swims on video and you can watch them on the YOS Youtube Channel. Thanks to great coaching from the Swim Your Swim team, the brilliant effort of the YOS members who took part and all the other members who helped them along the way. We are so proud of everyone who was involved this weekend and we look forward to next year and even more swimmers competing.

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