Leeds Christmas Cracker

I have just come back from the Leeds Christmas Cracker competition. I didn’t really perform as well as I had hoped...It was the most horrible weather conditions I have ever been in. It was -7 degrees on most days and it was freezing on poolside and in the pool, which wasn’t great! However, I got 6 personal best times, which were in my Back and Breast events and my 50 free. My biggest achievement of the competition was the 50 free skins. This was my first time participating in the skins as it is the top 8 people in a 50 event, so I had never been fast enough before. I went into the race in 5th place and came out 1st over a number of heats. I won 3 heats and the final one making it 4 out of 7. Overall I won some money and a lovely glass trophy for winning overall. I also won best girl for my age group. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and wish you a happy new year!

Leeds Christmas Cracker

My next competition is the Leeds Xmas Cracker 50m mode on 17/18 December.

I have to train hard now for the next couple of weeks, as I have missed some training due to not being well then came the snow and Guernsey came to a standstill!

So will let you know how I perform with this one!

Island Championships

Last month I competed at the Island Championships which is sponsored by Rothschild Bank.

I’m pleased I did well at this event seeing as they sponsor me personally.

I swum in 16 events and won all of them including the back and breast races which was a shock to me as they are my weakest events,  so I was delighted with that.  In the 400 individual medley race I got a very small personal best time and this was also the fastest all comers pool record.

Overall I got 12 new records and picked up the Rothschild and Perpetual trophies for the girl scoring the most points in the gala and the outstanding female swimmer of the meet.

South East Winter Short Course Championships held in Portsmouth.

This competition is run in two age groups, 16 and under and 17 and over.

I came away with 4 personal best times, where on the 800m freestyle my time of 8.45.80 for which I improved by nearly 23 seconds, this is also a new Island record by just over 20 seconds which has stood since 1994 held by Sam Herridge 9.06.36. In the 1500m freestyle my time of 16.48.51 which was nearly 30 seconds off my previous time

Some of these times were good enough for 3 Guernsey Island records, 4 South East Juniors, and 1 Open record.

 Overall I made the podium 12 times, where I won 2 Open events and 5 Juniors.