Cold Water Swimming Championships

We've signed up for our next training event - the 2015 Cold Water Swimming Championships on Saturday January 24th at Tooting Bec Lido. It's a 4x30m relay event. 30 metres doesn't sound very far, but the water will be freezing. Honestly, it will be freezing. Back in 2013 (the championships are held every two years) the water temperature was only 0.5 degrees! (I haven't mentioned that to Orlaith, Lynne and Fiona yet. They were the first to sign up with me. The others are, very sensibly, probably checking the small print first.) Apparently there were grumblings from some of the overseas competitors that the water wasn't cold enough. I don't think we'll be grumbling.