Counting down...

With only 6 weeks until Chloe & Amelia leave for the UK, excitement is mounting! Alice, Bianca, Chantelle & Tasmin will finally get to meet them face to face!

As the water temperature in the Channel starts to climb, in Warrnambool it has definitely dropped! This weekend saw a number of swimmers participate in a demanding training regime.

At 10pm on Friday June 13th, 13 swimmers (including Chloe) entered the sub 10c waters of the Hopkins River. 1 hour later they emerged shivering to look forward to a couple of hours rest until 2am-when they re-entered the dark & murky depths! At 10am on the Saturday the session was in the ocean, with a much anticipated luncheon afterwards! With weather conditions being cold, drizzly and blustery it took until Saturday evening for our body temperatures to get anywhere near normal again- a strong reminder of keeping hypothermia in mind at all times when training in cold water!

Amelia has been training with a swimming club in Ballarat and the girls in Jersey are spending a lot of time in the water over there.

Let the countdown begin!

Serious swims for serious causes!

Woohoo, only four months to go! Until Amelia & Chloe leave Australia that is! All the TOTM girls have been busy over the past few weeks, with training and fundraising a focus. The Jersey girls, ,Chantelle, Bianca, Tasmin and Alice swam over 2000 laps of their local pool on Easter Saturday to simulate an English Channel "Crossing". Actually, they were closer to swimming the equivilent of a triple crossing!

On Good Friday Chloe (in Australia), was involved in a Charity Swim to raise money for the local hospital to use for Kids with Cancer. Swimming a relay format over a 1200m course each team of 4 swam for 6 hours.

Amelia & Chloe are in the process of finalising details for the "Shiver Swim" on April 20th, organising a photo in one of the main papers and a couple of radio celebrities to be involved-should be fun!