i did it!

I completed the Rotto Swim.
19.6km of grueling, shark infested seas with a team of four people on a little boat.

we started at 8.30 in the morning, setting out on a 6m boat with four people; a skipper and three swimmers. we waited until our first swimmer began the race on the beach amongst about 500 other boats. the kyaker then had to sit and wait for the swimmer to arrive, then once joined, then had to find our boat about 1km out to sea. then the tagging began; one by one we each had our turn of swimming; 12 minutes at first, then 10, then 8... etc. i found that i was able to sustain the minutes like everyone else, but i was very much slower! we had two really really fast swimmers in our team, so in the end posted a really really good time.
it was only that night that the kyaker, Bartsy, told us that he had seen two sharks beneath us! errrk! glad he told us afterwards, not during! also glad that 'jaws' the movie was shown on tv the evening after the swim, not before or else i probably wouldn't have swum at all!

then at the end we all had to reach the beach together and run through an iron man finish arch and collect our medals. we felt like stars because there was thousands of people at the end of the race all cheering us on!
all good fun, not sure whether i would do it again though?!?!

swimming lessons tomorrow at our house, and work in the morning at boyup brook.
good to be home again, back to perth on wednesday.
not sleeping well at the moment. chow