Busy night at Loch Lomond

You can tell it's summer in Scotland when so many people are "rubbered up" and standing on the shore of Loch Lomond ready to take the plunge. There must have been 30 swimmers in their wetsuits and even a couple of "hard core" swimmers only in speedos! The first 5 minutes was cold but you soon warm up as you swim towards the beech on the opposite side which means you track the shoreline before you turn up the loch and into the deeper, colder and darker water. There were 9 ATHelite members in my group and we do a regular headcount to make sure no one goes missing! Our brightly coloured swim caps are to help boats coming into the harbour spot us and last night a big boat did just that honking it's horn as it approached. Bit scary but they are used to us. Afterwards I was interviewed by an ITV producer who is planning a programme around the loch and people who are using it. There idea is for the presenter to go swimming on the loch with me or another swimmer Sounds like great fun and I'd love to get the opportunity of spreading the word of mission ironman to a national audience which would increase my fund raising for Maggie's. I'll let you know the outcome but they may go for someone more local to the loch.