Sunday 1 April 2012

Just Keep Swimming...

We've had a fantastic weekend of outdoor swimming practise and bucket shaking (not really, Liverpool City Council - no buckets were shaken in the making of this blog post, we promise!)!

We started early on Saturday with a trip to a beautiful lake close to Betws-y-Coed in North Wales. It was cold...

 ...but we kept our spirits up...


...and got some good swimming in!


Then the wetsuits came off...


...Sarah lasted about a minute (this minute may or may not have contained some profanity...)...



...and Soph just kept swimming!


Very admirable! It was a brrrrrr-illiant start to acclimatisation! We'll be ready in no time ;-)

Of course someone couldn't resist practising his rescue skills!


Then on Sunday we donned our stunning (read: hilarious) seal costumes and headed into Liverpool City Centre to get collecting...


...with a little help...



...and we finished having taken a fantastic £369.18 thanks to the lovely (dog-loving!) people of Liverpool, bringing our total to £1693.38! Thank you all very very much!

2 comments:

  1. Lin on Facebook1 April 2012 at 15:16

    Fantaastic weekend's work you 2! Well done! Keep up the training - that water looks very chilly!! x

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    1. Thanks Lin! The water certainly was chilly - around 9 or 10 degrees we reckon...my shivers took a good few hours to subside after that!

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