What made me want to start....

I was 9 and I kept hearing about Olympic swimmers being amazing.


This made me want to start swimming just to be like them.


In the town where I lived they were organising a "swim run". I thought this sounded really cool so I signed up... I had to run round the whole town and swim 8 lengths of the pool. (which I thought was pretty tiring at the time) I gave it my best shot and in the end I came second in my age group - not bad for a first time.


At the event my mum saw someone who was a coach at a swimming club and  they suggested that I came along and have a swimming trial. The trial was for six weeks and for the first week it was ok but then every week after that I kept saying that I wanted to get out because everyone was way faster than me. But I carried on because I knew that I could get myself somewhere in life if I carried on with swimming....
So that was where my swimming ambitions all started ....


Swim Run results (my first ever event!)


Event  Swim Run
Held On 15th March 2009
Participant Eden 
Bib6Gender Female
Position Categorisation 2
Age 9 Years 
Total Time 00:11:45
Stage - Swim - Time 00:03:43

Stage - Run - Time 00:08:02