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Swimming is a great way to keep fit and what better place to do it than

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the scenery here, is beautiful. Mass participation, doing something, when

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you tell people about it they think you are crazy and you are like yeah,

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it's crazy. you are crazy and you are like yeah,

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makes it. Just swim. I lost my dad 11 years tomorrow and he used to do

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a lot of swimming so when I am out there it is like I am with him

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again. It is a sense of freedom, you are not surrounded by people, you

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are in the outdoors. Being able to be in the water, you see the

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environment from a completely different angle and you fall in love

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with the place all over again. Loch Lomond. Britain's largest

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freshwater lake. Nestled between Glasgow to the south and the

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Highlands to the North 50% of Scotland's population lives within

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an hours drive. It's sprinkled with over 30 islands, home to 15 native

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species of fish and eye-popping lead deep in places. A perfect setting.

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2016 is the third year at the Great Scottish Swim has been held that

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this location were mass participants can rub shoulders with Olympians and

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world champions. An inspirational backdrop for swimmers of all

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abilities pushing themselves were all sorts of reasons. The water is a

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sprightly 16 degrees but you could not have a better place to swim

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could you? I will be on the boat all day bringing you the up close action

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from the elite races over one mile and I will also try to stop some

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other swimmers when they are doing half-mile, one mile or two miles to

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see what their thoughts are. And I will be grabbing them as they come

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out of the water at the finish line. Every one of the 3000 swimmers each

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have their own special reasons for swimming here today and we will

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bring you some of the stories. Coming up we have the elite women's

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race where Kerri-Anne Payne that will be looking to go one better

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than last year. The favourite for the elite men's race will be Jack

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Burnell who was controversially disqualified and Rio. As well as the

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elite athletes there are thousands of amateur swimmers taking part. We

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will hear from local park ranger Beverley on how swimming has

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enhanced her love of this fantastic countryside. And we talked to two

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inspirational participants whose health has been transformed by

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taking to the water. Before all of that lets go back for a moment.

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Because the Great Scottish Swim actually started yesterday with a

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gruelling ten case when and new Aqua fun event, surely one for only the

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finest of athletes? Or maybe not, this is the swim run, 800 metres

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swim and a five run over hilly terrain and I just found out, it

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should be good fun for some but not for me. 800 metres might not sound

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that long but when you see the course stretching out in front of

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you it certainly feels it. 200 people decided to give it a go and

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what a beautiful Friday evening we were greeted by. It's called!

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Beautiful but refreshing. This is very lovely. What a lovely

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evening. It might have been a lovely evening but I must confess I found

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the swimming tough going and I was glad to reach the end of the

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half-mile course relatively unscathed. That was horrific. I

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would much prefer a cup of tea and a big slice of cake. The swimmers

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followed by the run which takes part in the country park. I will stop and

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talk to you. This is actually OK, the swimming is terrible, really

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uncomfortable. This is all right. Almost at the top of the climb. Look

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at that view. Isn't that glorious. That's when on a beautiful night,

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only 800 metres swimming I found it really difficult, got into a panic

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and it wasn't good. But the running was much better. The people doing

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the main event here on Saturday are in for some fun, it is great. I'm

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going for a cup of tea. Congratulations to all my fellow

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swim runners and a special mention to Freddie Mercury was runner-up in

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the women's event aged just 14. Saturday morning and plenty of

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spectators were up and about early ready to support the swimmers taking

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part in the remaining events held over half a mile, one mile, two mile

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and five-day courses. Later on these guys will be sharing the water with

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some of the worlds best open water swimmers. But early starters got to

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swim with a famous face, one perhaps better known on dry land. One

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pursing looking relatively nervous is stern McCann, how are you

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feeling? Heading into Loch Lomond and a couple of minutes, you have

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done this before I understand? Yes, I did the Manchester swim at the

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beginning of July so I have done an open water swim but I am still

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feeling nervous. Looking at Loch Lomond, it is daunting. Apparently

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it is freezing. The nerves are starting to kick in but I'm also

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excited at the same time. You say it is freezing, it is about 16 degrees

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which in Scotland is basically a warm bath so it's not that bad. I

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was in there last night and it's not too bad. What's the attraction of

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open water swimming for you? I think it's a great incentive to get in

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shape, it's a bit different and you can challenge yourself. Looking into

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an event like this, it's a massive challenge and when I finished the

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one in Manchester the sense of achievement, completion, it was just

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a massive accomplishment. I felt really proud of myself. What would

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you say to people who have not done this before and watching it thinking

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they could not do it. I felt the same, I thought there was no way I

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would ever be able to do a mile swim but I did it and back again.

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Challenge yourself, it's such a fun day, so many people come down to

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support. It's trying something new and you get fit at the same time.

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What more can you want? Just do it. Thank you, enjoy today. I'm here

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with one of the 3000 swimmers who will be out there later on today,

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about to compete in the one mile swim Richard how do you feel? An

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hour or so to go so a little bit. You do every time. Tell us about

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yourself and why you are lucky to be swimming? I had a disease that is

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quite similar to leukaemia. After suffering with that for about a year

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and getting worse and worse they gave me a bone marrow transplant. It

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basically brought me back to life. Since the transplant you are

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competing in the world transplant games. I joined the transplant sport

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organisation and did the games in 2014. I came away with a couple of

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gold medals and a silver medal. Then I got a letter the following October

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offering me a place in the British team for the world games in

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Argentina. A couple of years previous to that you were very ill,

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exercise completely out the window, you don't know if you are going to

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survive and now you are competing for Great Britain at the World

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Championships. That's an incredible turnaround. If I had not been ill I

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would have not got seriously back into swimming and would never have

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been selected for a British team so effectively my gold medal is a

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consequence of me being ill. I would much rather be out there than I

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would in the swimming pool. I in the water, getting your head down and

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just swimming. Transplant sport is the organisation which organises

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these games also they promote people getting back into exercise after

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transplant and the most important side of it is donation. People need

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to be on donor registers. It was stem cells which gave me redrawn

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bone marrow. My donor is alive and well somewhere. I am able to swim

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and I can just about cover a mile. Swimming for me is basically, it

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saved my life in a way in the sense that I have a life. It's not just me

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living, I have a life. That is what is important. That is what our

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multiple medallist looks like from the world transplant games and it's

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great to see him here doing the great Scottish swim. How was it?

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Good, long, steady swim which I like. But she could sense it was a

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beautiful environment. Yeah. What an achievement, well done. Thank you.

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How's it going? Are you enjoying it? I am. What distance are you doing?

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Five? You are a veteran? I have only been doing it a year. How was it

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ladies? It was brilliant, really enjoyed it, came last year and did

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it for the first time and enjoyed it so that is why we are back. Tell us

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about the money you are raising? I am raising money for a special needs

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swimming club near where I live. Will you do more events? I will keep

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doing the series, it's a great thing and everyone is raising money for

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charity, it's awesome. Everyone is smiling. I don't know why, it's

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pretty torturous. Swimming for the firefighters charity, raising money.

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This year I managed to get my dad involved so I agreed to do the mile

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with them so it was nice to take your time and enjoy the scenery.

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Different to the pool. Couple of bags of sugar in each leg. Enjoyed

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it. It's becoming a tradition, get a bottle of beer when we finish. The

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loser has to buy the beer but I think that's me. You did kid on your

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falling just to get on the finish line. What is causing that big smile

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on your face? This is the first time I've done open water swimming, I

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normally do running challenges, I've done Ben Nevis this year but this

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was a big one for me, the Dare termination is keeping me going. --

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the determination. Just either water, still exhausted, how was it?

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It was good but it was long. The first time I've done something like

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that. I feel a sense of relief and achievement. Have you not been

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sewing for about 20 years before this? No. I have dipped my toes in

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the sea but I've not been swimming for years. You look like a

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professional well done. Thank you. Done quite a bit of training and my

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first open water swim was about six weeks ago and I realised how hard it

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was then. But it was OK. How easy or top did you find it? It was great, I

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got to halfway and I thought crikey we are halfway, that seemed to come

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quickly but it was brilliant. How was it? It was good, I really

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enjoyed it. At the start I was nervous, sorry I'm still a bit shaky

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because when you get out the water, you're not 100% with it but I really

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enjoy it. Were you able to take in any of the scenery? The whole time I

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was swimming around I was reminding myself I'm in Loch Lomond in the

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open water and you do have to take the moments to let it all sink in. I

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stopped, when I got to the pink halfway mark, a little bit on from

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them I stopped and took a moment to look around and it was cool. What's

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the best thing about this? The atmosphere, it inclusive, doesn't

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matter if you are a real athlete or not, everyone is welcome. Will you

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be having a triple after this, any reward? Hopefully!

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What makes this event really special is the chance for Mass participants

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to share the water with the worlds best. Olympians and while champions.

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In the elite race we have some incredible athletes including one

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Scottish swimmer who's just come back from Rio with a medal. I'm

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Robbie Renwick, I'm an Olympic swimmer for Team GB. I love swimming

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outdoors. I'm used to 200 metres so to be asked maybe eight times longer

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than I normally do is quite daunting at the moment. I'm going to try some

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open water tactics, maybe just go gung ho at the very start and try

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and win it from there. I'm Jack Burnell, Olympic open water swim. We

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are all coming in line. The best guys are on the water there so you

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are going to very close. I feel a hand on the back of my leg which

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stops me dead. I took a couple more strokes and the guy was still on my

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foot. When I was on the plane on my way back it was a 12 hour flight.

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That's a lot of thinking time. When your back close to an Olympic gold

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medal. I kept coming up with the response, the race was perfect, it

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panned out how I wanted it to, it was just because of someone else's

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actions that robbed me of that gold medal. I made ten K open water swim.

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I'm two-time world champion. It's always a pleasure to come here and

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have so much fun here. I will come the next year 's fish or because I

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always have so much fun. I'm Keri-Anne Payne, and Olympic silver

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medallist. I completely forgot to train after my race because I was

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enjoying watching the triathlon, athletics and hockey. I was consumed

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by the Olympics. So my performance might be a bit down on what it

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normally would be. I'm a two-time Olympian. I looked at the list

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before I came out here. You've got Jack Burnell here who an Olympian in

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the temple at and World Cup champion, and you've got a world

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champion in the 25 kilometres. This will be a bit of a sprint for him

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but it's the entire opposite for me. The elite racers will get under way

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shortly. Will look forward to how those pool swimmers get on in the

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not so toasty waters. Loch Lomond is Scotland's first national park which

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attracts 4 million visitors every year. For one Mass participants this

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is something of a busman 's holiday. Good morning and welcome to Loch

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Lomond National Park. My name is Beverly Clark, I'm a range with the

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National park. I'm swimming in my third year at the Great Scottish

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Swim. The reason I became a range in 2005 I was lucky enough to start

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working at a visitors centre for a seasonal job. I met the Rangers

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based there and they were amazing and really inspiring. I trained as a

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primary teacher and that seemed a really good way of using my training

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to educate people and engage with people and I thought, yeah, this is

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the job but I want to do. So this group I've been working with today

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are from deaf blind Scotland, the charity that supports people with

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those additional needs. They do this day out with their members. We

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offered them guided walks. They have helped train us in guiding people

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with visual impairment or hearing impairment. I love working with

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groups like this, outreach groups like this. People who wouldn't

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normally come here because they feel there is a barrier in the way. The

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fact I can be there and be that connection, for them to come out

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here and get connected with it, I love that. It was absolutely

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wonderful. Most people don't know about it, this is the sad thing. I

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was amazed when the volunteers explain things to you. I'm not doing

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my swim alone. I've been really lucky that I've been able to train

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with two of my ranger colleagues Suzanne and Lorna. We'd been out

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swimming all around the National Park. Usually you're looking after

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the park, what about swimming in it? It's brilliant. It makes you fall in

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love with the place all over again. How do you feel when you're actually

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in the water? Free, completely free, relaxed, happy. Scotland is amazing.

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I never stop learning what a wonderful country we have. I just

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feel very lucky to be here. It really is an incredible effort from

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all taking part in the mass participation events. Behind me you

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can see the women assembling for the elite race. Steve is going to tell

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us the ones to watch. Really exciting race we've got in prospect.

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I can't look past Keri-Anne Payne, she's just come back from Rio. These

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conditions are perfect for her. Very little wind, very little waves.

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Don't forget four-time Olympian Jana Pechanova is always strong. And then

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Christine Jennings from the USA really knows how to race. When you

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throw in a loss of junior Olympians we've got a hot race in prospect.

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Now to the commentators David and Andy. COMMENTATOR: Thank you Steve.

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Keri-Anne Payne in the yellow hat, right next to Jana Pechanova the

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35-year-old from the Czech Republic. Four-time Olympian. Straightaway

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pass the wonderful boat on the left-hand side. Keri-Anne Payne on

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the right-hand side. I am joined by David Carry, two times Commonwealth

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champion, three times Olympian. And a bit of insider knowledge here.

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Because you're the husband of Keri-Anne! I'm a bit nervous about

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watching the race! These first hundred metres or so, tell me about

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the tactics because they've got a decent distance to the first boy.

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Keri-Anne has just come back from the Olympics. How is she going to

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swing this one do you think? The first half of the race will be about

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positioning. It's a long straight out to that first right-handed turn

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towards the end of the race here. She's going to have to make sure

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that she's in the right place, along with the top runners as well. I'm

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expecting Jana and Christine. The beautiful day here in Loch Lomond,

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absolutely gorgeous weather. Water is pretty flat, it's not the open

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water we've just seen Rio. Absolutely. As it is an inland Loch

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there won't be a huge amount of current. You can see there is a bit

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of a headwind they are swimming into which means they'll have to be a bit

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careful about breeze. Jana is already turning around a bit further

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than she might in the swimming pool, that so she's got clean air to

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breathe from. Keri-Anne in the yellow hat. Jana Pechanova looks

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very comfortable indeed. Breathing to her left and side -- left-hand

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side. Christine Jennings, the defending champion in the Great

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Scottish Swim, currently right on the feet of Keri-Anne. That can get

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a bit annoying, can't it? Keri-Anne will be feeling the tap tap tap of

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Christine's hands. She does so much training to deal with that so she's

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actually very comfortable. She puts on quite a lot of Vaseline on the

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bottom of her feet so that Christine will be getting a handful of

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gasoline right now which is never a nice thing to have to swim with! --

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handful of Vaseline. Christine Jennings there, the defending

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champion. She trains every day, seven days a week. Jana Pechanova

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swimming pretty close to Keri-Anne. She's doing a bit more citing. Very

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natural citing stroke. Just seems to almost incorporate it is a natural

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part of the stroke rather than working hard on it. Absolutely, she

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does a huge amount of this in the pool as well. It's about efficiency.

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The easier she can make that, the easier it will be for her. Her usual

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event is ten K so it's seven times this event. It's a huge part of her

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technique that she employs to great effect. The 10,000 metres in Rio

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just off Cocoa car -- just off Copacabana beach is the race she

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did. The Field starting to get on the feet of the two leaders.

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Keri-Anne in the yellow, Jana is with her. Danielle Huskisson is

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there as well looking fairly comfortable. Just look there,

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Keri-Anne Payne has got to people behind her and she's being squashed

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in the middle by Jana and Christine. But she's OK because she's been

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learning judo just so she can keep her own space. COMMENTATOR: judo,

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what's this about? After London she had got battered in a race. It was

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getting to be a rough-and-tumble event. She realised she had to be

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comfortable with the physicality. She spent a bit of time with Joanna

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Gibbons and Euan Burton as well. And really was able to be comfortable

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with that level of physicality. You can see that already. Olympic

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medallist judo? Yes. So she spent a bit of time having a cup of coffee,

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did she actually do judo with her? She was actually on the mat and

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really getting involved. Properly getting thrown around the place, to

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be comfortable with that level of physicality. Now she says that she

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is absolutely fine with it and enjoys the idea that she holds her

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own space. You can see she's absolutely surrounded on either side

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but she's very comfortable with that. Whereas before she was always

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in a panic and worried about getting an elbow or a kick. Now she looks

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pretty comfortable. Rio was very physical, certainly in that last

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couple of metres but Keri-Anne has decided to stay in the centre. If

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Jana Pechanova on the left of those three leaders and Christine Jennings

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on the left-hand side in the pink hat, there's a bit of argy-bargy...

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She's got absolutely crushed! Jenkins had to take evasive action

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there. Carrie Anne Payne blocked out. She had to go underwater to get

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out the way. Nice skills from Payne. David, did she know what she was

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doing there? Forcing her to that buoy question mark she wasn't

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forcing, she was holding her line! LAUGHTER It just allowed her to get

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that most efficient way round the buoy there. It's about trying to get

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as close to that buoy as you possibly can. I know that Keri-Anne

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used to do a corkscrew stroke... It will be interesting to see how that

:27:23.:27:28.

goes. That next buoy is coming up. The halfway mark in this Great

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Scottish Swim. Let's see what happens on this turn here. Again,

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Jenkins squeezed out in the middle but these three have been neck and

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neck all the way through. It's almost like synchronised swimming,

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they are stroke for stroke. I wonder if one of them will start to make a

:27:48.:27:50.

move to try and break the rest of the field. Keri-Anne didn't do that

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corkscrew turn but Jana Pechanova got left a bit on that turn there.

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You can see the advantage you get if you take that buoy tightly. They

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were neck and neck and are coming out of its and all of a sudden Jana

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was a full body length behind. What's happened to Jenkins on the

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right-hand side, sorry, Jennings? She was right with Keri-Anne. It

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looks like it was Jana Pechanova who had the worst turn but suddenly

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Jennings has been dropped. It looked like she got a bit disorientated as

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they came around the buoy there. It just shows how technical this open

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water swimming can be. Keri-Anne Payne looks very

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comfortable indeed. This is great swimming, she has really made a move

:28:57.:29:00.

over this third quarter of the event. She is trying to break the

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rest of the guys in the field, you can see from down here she is really

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up to stroke rate and are starting to kick a little bit more. This

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might be the decisive move. David she really does look like she has

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made a move but right on her feet still is Jana Pechanova,. She has

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been to four Olympic Games, probably the most experienced swimmer in the

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pack and you wonder if she is holding it back, is she just sitting

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in the draft behind Kerri-Anne and getting a bit of a tall? It looks

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like she is. What a beautiful location this is and I believe it

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might be a location for the European Championships and a couple of years?

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Absolutely. You can just see the picturesque setting but also the

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conditions, just wonderful conditions for open water swimming.

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It is beautiful and a little bit colder today, 16 degrees but David I

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think he decided to not go in the water? Yeah, I give it a miss, it a

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lot colder than the swimming pool. Kerri-Anne Payne looking very good

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indeed, the leading two well ahead. There is Kerri-Anne, she has the

:30:26.:30:31.

pace perfect. You can tell from here how hard Kerri-Anne Payne is working

:30:32.:30:37.

to keep the lead, her arms turning fast, but Jana Pechanova is not

:30:38.:30:41.

letting her go. They have about 300 metres to go and this is where it's

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going to start to hurt the swimmers. This is where your lungs hurt and it

:30:46.:30:50.

feels like there is an elephant on your back. You certainly do have to

:30:51.:30:53.

be tough to get through it but it looks like Kerri-Anne Payne might

:30:54.:31:00.

have dropped Jana Pechanova. What do you do, there is a tiny gap,

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Kerri-Anne has made a great move? Does she try to get back on her feet

:31:09.:31:12.

or does she defend her position in second? Second place to third place

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is a decent gap so I would be surprised if Jana Pechanova doesn't

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have a go. Then a decisive move, maybe five metres, six metres,

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Kerri-Anne is on a mission. You can see down the back 800 metres she

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upped it immediately and then again. You can see again the stroke rate

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has just gone up another level and that is what has broken Jana. Coming

:31:43.:31:53.

into the final couple of hundred of metres and it looks like Kerri-Anne

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is going to win in this gorgeous setting, what a wonderful place to

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swim open water, here in Loch Lomond. Kerri-Anne Payne she has got

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about ten metres to go. Kerri-Anne Payne of Great Britain is going to

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be the 2016 great Scottish swim champion. There she is, Kerri-Anne

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Payne wins, second comfortably in the end to Jana Pechanova. Have to

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touch the finishing board above the head. In the end it was pretty

:32:25.:32:30.

comfortable, still coming in, Christine Jennings coming in for

:32:31.:32:36.

third place for the USA. She was the defending champion but nothing she

:32:37.:32:44.

could do about Kerri-Anne. Confirmation of the results for the

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elite women. it's always been quite special,

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Copacabana, and now I have raced there it's even better. I kept

:33:08.:33:14.

getting distracted but I had to concentrate on keeping swimming. And

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it's the same here. The scenery is inspirational. Coming here and

:33:22.:33:27.

racing here, as soon as I did then I realised I loved it, and I was

:33:28.:33:31.

really excited and the race went perfectly to plan. It's wonderful

:33:32.:33:34.

for me because after the Olympics I have a bit of a break so this is my

:33:35.:33:38.

first swim. I am surprised but it was hard in the first half, I swam

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off easy but next to Kerri-Anne Payne she was going faster and I

:33:49.:33:51.

could not catch but I finished second so I am happy. I think it's

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wonderful, more wonderful than Rio. Because it's Europe, it's Scotland,

:33:58.:34:05.

I like Scotland and England also. You cannot say no to these guys,

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such an amazing race, I have a great time every time I am here and I

:34:10.:34:13.

thought it would be wonderful to be back. You know this area very well

:34:14.:34:19.

because you work here but you are out swimming as well, how was it? It

:34:20.:34:25.

was lovely. It's always stunning, I was asked when I was out there, when

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I was interviewed, what does it make me feel like and I just said happy,

:34:31.:34:35.

peaceful. I enjoy myself and I am out there, I don't do it for a time

:34:36.:34:39.

or anything like that. I just enjoy being out there and being part of

:34:40.:34:44.

the big event. You are nice and brave going sleeveless, is it

:34:45.:34:50.

fashion? It is easier to swim in. Not that I am any good. You look

:34:51.:34:54.

like you're doing pretty well to me. Have you done one of these before?

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This is my fifth. What is motivating you? We did two last year and

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enjoyed it so thought we would do all five this year. Lots of my

:35:08.:35:12.

family and friends have unfortunately been touched by cancer

:35:13.:35:16.

saw wanted to raise awareness for Macmillan and particularly my mother

:35:17.:35:20.

has been suffering with ovarian cancer and I am here with my husband

:35:21.:35:24.

who is having treatment for stage four bowel cancer so I was really

:35:25.:35:31.

wanting to do something that challenged myself just even remotely

:35:32.:35:34.

touch on what people go through with cancer day-to-day.

:35:35.:35:41.

Everyone has their own reason for taking part in the Great Scottish

:35:42.:35:47.

Swim, this is Stephen Morris and you have an amazing story, tell me about

:35:48.:35:54.

yourself? In 2009 I was diagnosed with type two diabetes. I had a 25

:35:55.:35:59.

year lifestyle of eating too much, sitting behind a desk and I was

:36:00.:36:06.

shocked to the core. I decided I had to lose weight and start doing

:36:07.:36:11.

exercise. I felt that with my knees I couldn't run so I thought right

:36:12.:36:14.

it's got to be swimming and I went off and I could splash from one end

:36:15.:36:19.

of the pool to the other, do about four lengths and I was out of

:36:20.:36:23.

breath. I went back right from the beginning and I had one-to-one

:36:24.:36:29.

swimming lessons. I learn to swim, started swimming regularly. Then

:36:30.:36:32.

somebody said why don't you try open water and the rest as they say is

:36:33.:36:38.

history. I am a mad open water swim. Today in Loch Lomond is my first

:36:39.:36:43.

chance to swim here. I have lost in that period four and a half stone.

:36:44.:36:49.

Six inches around my belly. I am not quite Superman but I'm trying to get

:36:50.:36:55.

a flat stomach. I'm enjoying myself doing it. For most adults it's

:36:56.:36:58.

difficult to make yourself like a child and go back to the beginning

:36:59.:37:01.

and start again and get lessons like you did when you are a child. You

:37:02.:37:08.

have clearly taken it all and loved it and doing open water swimming now

:37:09.:37:13.

and enjoying that is well and a huge difference. It's a mind and body

:37:14.:37:17.

thing isn't it? I think you've really got to want to do it. When

:37:18.:37:22.

you find out what the symptoms of diabetes are in later life you would

:37:23.:37:28.

not want to go there. Lots of people have it, having their legs

:37:29.:37:32.

amputated, I don't want that to happen to me so you have to do

:37:33.:37:36.

something about it. I am one of those people that once I am

:37:37.:37:40.

determined to do something I do it. People might be watching their

:37:41.:37:45.

spending, sitting on the couch, just had dinner, feeling relaxed,

:37:46.:37:48.

thinking I should give it a go, what would you say to them to get them

:37:49.:37:54.

off their seats? Just start to do something. Just start swimming. Or

:37:55.:38:07.

if you're going to run just run. For me it was swimming. Realise the

:38:08.:38:09.

technique is not good and do something about it, learn to swim

:38:10.:38:11.

again. Learn to swim properly. Build up slowly and you will see the pound

:38:12.:38:15.

is coming off and you'll feel better and you love it. That is Stephen not

:38:16.:38:20.

worried about his diabetes, he's lost six inches around his waist and

:38:21.:38:24.

is flying around Loch Lomond, what a man. He has inspired his workforce

:38:25.:38:29.

to raise a lot of money, and I think he deserves a well done. On the last

:38:30.:38:33.

bit coming back the sun was shining right down, it was lovely, I felt

:38:34.:38:38.

really good about the swim. Good that I've raised money for charity

:38:39.:38:46.

and how lucky am I? Earlier we saw a wonderful performance and a great

:38:47.:38:51.

win for Kerri-Anne Payne, a popular one here, but who will win the men's

:38:52.:38:56.

race? Steve Parry will give us an idea. I am licking my lips at the

:38:57.:39:01.

prospects here, Jack Burnell could have been the Olympic champion if it

:39:02.:39:06.

wasn't for being pulled back in the last 200 metres Rio. We have

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Christian Reichert, two-time world champion who is always tough to

:39:12.:39:15.

beat. Then we have Robbie Renwick with a silver medal from the

:39:16.:39:19.

Olympics, he is a freestyle pool swimmer, you will be tough to beat

:39:20.:39:23.

and of course Craig Benson is a GP Olympian as well. -- GB Olympian. In

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the commentary box Andy Jameson and David Carry.

:39:32.:39:36.

Jack Burnell closest to us in the yellow hat. The pink hat next to him

:39:37.:39:47.

is Craig Benson who is a breaststroke swimmer. David Carry

:39:48.:39:53.

next to me, double Commonwealth champion, three-time Olympian. At

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the top, the Hughes brothers off like a shot. Incredible to see how

:39:58.:40:02.

already the pack is splitting and we are only about a hundred metres in.

:40:03.:40:08.

Already a big stretch. This is unusual, because it is see deeds,

:40:09.:40:12.

what is considered the best swimmers to the left and the not so good

:40:13.:40:16.

swimmers to the right, it's very different. This is a real turn up.

:40:17.:40:23.

The Hughes brothers in the white hats swimming right along. That

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wonderful fairy, look at that, absolutely beautiful vessel. The two

:40:31.:40:37.

Hughes brothers on the left-hand side, on the outside it is Nathan

:40:38.:40:43.

Hughes, the younger of the two, and Kay. What's going on here? You can

:40:44.:40:51.

almost see the brothers working together, in fact, jack has just

:40:52.:40:57.

spotted them over there, he is making a bit of a beeline straight

:40:58.:41:02.

across to get on their tails. Interesting because that's not the

:41:03.:41:08.

quickest route. Jack Burnell in the yellow hat, trying to make sure he

:41:09.:41:12.

is marking the two Hughes brothers. If he can get between the two of

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them that would be very comfortable indeed. The siblings are playing

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this one right, Caleb and Nathan, they are out in front. Made a bit

:41:24.:41:27.

navigational mistake but are back on course. The rest of the field

:41:28.:41:31.

followed, they did not lose anything. They are working together

:41:32.:41:35.

here no doubt, taking command of the field. Nathan closest to us and

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Caleb on the far side. And Jack Burnell right behind them. The

:41:44.:41:53.

direction here is strange. That's interesting, the Olympian of 200

:41:54.:41:58.

metres freestyle silver medallist is fourth. You can see they are going

:41:59.:42:07.

all sorts of different angles here and it's like the brothers are

:42:08.:42:11.

looking backwards more than they are looking for words. I think they

:42:12.:42:14.

really want to dominate the pack and make sure nobody can go past them.

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If it comes down to a sprint those guys are quick. They certainly are.

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That last bit was ridiculous, they are all over the place. It's like

:42:26.:42:33.

they are right for a nice stroll on the lake and everyone else's

:42:34.:42:39.

following them wherever they go. It's quite heating up. The other

:42:40.:42:43.

thing is we have pool swimmer is in there which is quite unusual for

:42:44.:42:47.

open water racing. There are skills of navigation are not so good so I

:42:48.:42:51.

can imagine there is a little bit of bumping going on is specially with

:42:52.:42:57.

Robbie Renwick in the back. Let's be clear, two pool swimmer 's leading

:42:58.:43:01.

which is probably why they are all over the place. The light blue hat

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is Tom Allen, fantastic open water swimmer, the yellow hat in the

:43:07.:43:10.

centre is Jack Burnell just off the back of the plane from Rio. And the

:43:11.:43:15.

Hughes brothers looking good, nice and comfortable, maybe now they have

:43:16.:43:19.

got into her stride, the chaser is right on their feet. Easy to swim on

:43:20.:43:23.

the feat -year-old would you prefer to be out in front? I think being on

:43:24.:43:29.

the feet is a good place to be because it as calm as it is you can

:43:30.:43:34.

almost see the reflection of the sky in the water. That means there's a

:43:35.:43:37.

lot of advantage being behind the athletes because the water is all

:43:38.:43:41.

going in that direction, it means they are getting a wonderful draft.

:43:42.:43:46.

So it should in theory be a lot more efficient assuming they are going

:43:47.:43:47.

the right direction. We've seen them go in all sorts of

:43:48.:43:57.

directions at the moment but it seems the Hughes brothers are doing

:43:58.:44:04.

all the work at the moment. Behind them Jack Burnell and Christian

:44:05.:44:08.

Reichert. The German in the dark green hat. He was the world champion

:44:09.:44:18.

for 25,000 metres. 25 K open water. I can't even imagine it. That's got

:44:19.:44:22.

to take five hours of constant swimming. That is an incredible

:44:23.:44:28.

distance. The mindset you have to have that is incredible. Christian,

:44:29.:44:33.

a really big performer. He was only about four seconds behind the

:44:34.:44:39.

eventual winner in Rio. A real quality guy, as was Jack as well. A

:44:40.:44:44.

quality field here just behind those brothers. It'll be interesting to

:44:45.:44:49.

see this crucial buoy turn just what's going to happen here. Nathan

:44:50.:45:03.

and Caleb leading out comfortably. A fairly bunched up in second, third

:45:04.:45:07.

and fourth. Quite a lot of citing going on. Is that a bit excessive

:45:08.:45:17.

looking up that much? Is he worried about this at length in front? Tom

:45:18.:45:23.

is such an easy swimmer so citing for him is very comfortable. Coming

:45:24.:45:31.

up to this first turning buoy. Lots of argy-bargy in the women's race.

:45:32.:45:37.

What's happening here? Jack Burnell all over Christian Reichert on the

:45:38.:45:47.

corner. This -- the Hughes brothers are all over them. COMMENTATOR: The

:45:48.:45:56.

Hughes brothers on a slightly, not too much of direction now. The are

:45:57.:46:05.

looking a bit less comfortable now. Jack's stroke rate is slower, there

:46:06.:46:14.

is no leg kick there. This buoy turn will be pretty crucial. Jack is

:46:15.:46:22.

giving Christian Reichert a bit of a knock as they go around the halfway

:46:23.:46:29.

mark. 800 metres down in the Great Scottish Swim 2016. As it's been

:46:30.:46:35.

from the very start, the two Hughes brothers Caleb and Nathan leading it

:46:36.:46:41.

out. Have we dropped a light blue hat of Tom Allen? A little bit. Jack

:46:42.:46:46.

Burnell starting to make a move. Maybe he wants to push the pace a

:46:47.:46:52.

little bit more, here. I think we've dropped Tom Allen. There are four

:46:53.:46:59.

left in the pack. The brothers are still dominating the front but it

:47:00.:47:04.

looks like Christian and Jack are looking for a way round. You can

:47:05.:47:08.

just see Jack popping his head around, checking how far he's got to

:47:09.:47:14.

go. Christian and Jack a bit of a bump there, this will be

:47:15.:47:19.

interesting. I'm not sure if Caleb and Nathan have planned this but

:47:20.:47:24.

they've got it sorted, they are blocking Jack Burnell and Christian

:47:25.:47:27.

Reichert. They can't get through at the moment. They will have to make

:47:28.:47:30.

their move soon otherwise they've got no chance of winning it. They

:47:31.:47:35.

will have to make their move. That's the 1000 metre mark. 600 metres to

:47:36.:47:41.

go. The Hughes brothers of forming a bit of a barn door here. We don't

:47:42.:47:47.

often see this kind of tactics in the open water, two swimmers

:47:48.:47:51.

swimming quite as together as this. It's very rare. It's usually the

:47:52.:47:55.

Olympics or World Championships and it's very much an individual sport.

:47:56.:48:00.

This is almost like Tour de France. They are working together here. You

:48:01.:48:05.

can see how hard they are having to work just to see if there is a way

:48:06.:48:09.

round here. I get the sense that Jack may well be looking to make his

:48:10.:48:13.

move along with Christian. I think those guys have done pretty well to

:48:14.:48:17.

be at the front for as long as they have. Jack does seem to be biding

:48:18.:48:22.

his time but at some time someone will have to make a move. The two

:48:23.:48:26.

white hats, they are very good sprint swimmers. Just look at Jack

:48:27.:48:34.

Burnell. He's had a great season. He looks to be swimming really easy to

:48:35.:48:40.

me. He might just turn it on here, soon. Do you think he's going to

:48:41.:48:45.

turn it on? If he is he's going to have to do it pretty soon. He's got

:48:46.:48:50.

400 metres left. He's going to make up the whole body length of those

:48:51.:48:53.

brothers and then find his way, the best line into the course. Timing

:48:54.:48:59.

but also the correct line is going to be crucial here. It looks like

:49:00.:49:03.

Tom Allen hasn't just been dropped. He certainly dropped his hand at the

:49:04.:49:08.

back of that leading pack of five. Still hanging very, very dangerously

:49:09.:49:12.

is Jack Burnell in that yellow hat. Is he starting to make his move now?

:49:13.:49:17.

When would you go, how far out would you go with these Hughes brothers in

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the lead? You don't know how much they've got. That's the crucial

:49:22.:49:25.

thing. If they've got a lot to counteract these moves then Jack is

:49:26.:49:29.

going to be in a bit of bother, here. You can see the leg kick,

:49:30.:49:34.

there's more white water coming in, now. I wonder if they'd picked up

:49:35.:49:39.

the pace, here. It looks like Caleb has. Nathan acting as a bit of a

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blocker. I think Tom has seen Caleb go. It's Jack in the yellow hat, has

:49:45.:49:53.

he got it covered? Because the Hughes brother on the right-hand

:49:54.:49:59.

side is Nathan, and the older of the two Caleb is on the left-hand side.

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Surely cleared the green hat of Christian Reichert is best placed...

:50:05.:50:10.

Goodness me, what is going to happen, here. This is going to be a

:50:11.:50:16.

fantastic finish. The Olympics in Rio there were ten people who

:50:17.:50:19.

finished within four seconds. I think it's going to be equally as

:50:20.:50:23.

close because they are really starting to get very close to the

:50:24.:50:29.

end. Here we are, this is the final stretch of it. Christian Reichert in

:50:30.:50:34.

the green hat, Tom Allen trying to sneak up on the far side. He lost

:50:35.:50:40.

his hat but hasn't lost the race quite yet. The two Hughes brothers

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looking strong indeed. This is the final stretch and there's going to

:50:44.:50:48.

be one heck of a sprint coming here. Caleb Hughes and Nathan Hughes is

:50:49.:50:53.

neck and neck. Has Christian Reichert gone for it? Jack and

:50:54.:50:56.

Christian either side of the brothers but have they left it too

:50:57.:51:00.

late? You can see the finishing line, this is going to be a mad

:51:01.:51:04.

sprint towards the end. Christian Reichert all over Caleb Hughes.

:51:05.:51:12.

Surely that's not going to be good news for Christian Reichert in that

:51:13.:51:16.

green hat. Jack Burnell really making his move and now it is

:51:17.:51:20.

stringing out. Now they are almost in line. Here's Tom Allen. Here he

:51:21.:51:27.

comes around the outside. There are almost four in a line, here. The

:51:28.:51:33.

yellow hat now, the experienced wily character who sat on the feet of the

:51:34.:51:37.

Hughes brothers, it is Jack Burnell coming into this final sprint. Just

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off the plane from Rio and looks like he may win this elite men's

:51:44.:51:48.

Scottish swim. It's going to be very tight in this last 15 metres. It may

:51:49.:51:54.

be Jack Burnell. He's made a massive move. Maybe Nathan Hughes is hanging

:51:55.:51:59.

in there in second place. Look at the scrap for third. They've got to

:52:00.:52:03.

touch the board and it is Jack Burnell who wins it. Second Nathan

:52:04.:52:07.

Hughes. Maybe Christian Reichert... That was very close indeed. Maybe

:52:08.:52:16.

Reichert in third and Hughes in fourth. That was incredible, will

:52:17.:52:22.

have to go to the photo finish for the third place. What a finish. What

:52:23.:52:33.

a fabulous race that was. The 2016 Great Scottish Swim in Loch Lomond,

:52:34.:52:35.

a stunning venue. I know I'm in the best shape

:52:36.:52:51.

possible. I know I'm one of the best open water swimmers in the world,

:52:52.:52:55.

just need to get out there and prove it again. My heart was going really

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fast. It was hard to get into but once you get into the flow of it

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it's fine. It was tough. I tried to hold on. But they were slipping on

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my stream. They obviously weren't using as much energy as me so they

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could come past. I dug deep and tried to hold on. It was a very

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close finish. We were all together. I tried to swim faster at the finish

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but I don't know if it was third or fourth but we were all very close.

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Like every year. From the best in the world to a young woman with MS

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who has two very special reasons for taking part in her first swim. I'm

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Nicola Hunter and this is my first Great Scottish Swim. I was diagnosed

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in 2006 after the birth of my daughter. During my pregnancy I

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started feeling numbness and tingling across my body so I knew

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there was something wrong. After the birth of a child you can go

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downhill. Chance of relapse is 90%. After the birth of my boy whose

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three, my MS had got pretty bad and I decided I had to try and help

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myself. So the safest way to do that was to swim because my balance is

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off, I can't run, I can't walk long distances. I need to be strong for

:54:22.:54:28.

my children. It was very hard at the beginning. In the beginning we were

:54:29.:54:32.

hoping it wasn't true but unfortunately it became true and she

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got diagnosed properly. Nicola has been brilliant with it, she's never

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let it get her down, she's always been positive, keeping positive for

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Lucy and then for Ellis. I was just so happy when she started swimming.

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My aunty and her friends have all swum the Great Scottish Swim before

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and they suggested I give it so that people with multiple sclerosis see

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how they can exercise and be safe while enjoying themselves at the

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same time. It doesn't matter how weak you are, when I first started

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coming swimming I had to get somebody to hold me. I was shaking

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walking into the pool. Week by week I could do it by myself. It has

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given me strength in my body that wasn't there. Everything I do is for

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them. Everything I do is for them. I'm here with Nicola's family and

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you must be pretty proud of your mum. Tell me about how much she's

:55:30.:55:35.

put into this. My mum has put in a lot of training. She's been swimming

:55:36.:55:39.

every five days in the week, sometimes more. She's been training

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a lot to get to this stage and I'm really proud of her. The swimming

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has transformed her life to be honest. She wasn't looking too well

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before that. Then she started swimming again with her aunty and

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its transformed her life. It's been good. And an emotional day fee you

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as well. It is. We are all looking forward to it. I don't want them to

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have a sick mum that they see sick all the time. I want to be healthy.

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I don't want them to remember me like that. I want to do everything I

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can with them and help them succeed in life and I can't do that if I'm

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bedridden. So I need to help myself. So this has been ten years

:56:29.:56:35.

diagnosed. If anybody with MS wants to go out and do exercise that safe

:56:36.:56:40.

and will help them with their mobility, their moods, fatigue, then

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swimming is the way forward. We are almost at the end of our programme

:56:48.:56:51.

here at Loch Lomond. A great performance in the elite races,

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amazing the boys race in particular right at the end there. We have

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these guys come back from Rio. It's great just to see them going

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head-to-head again. Jack Burnell, a great victory for him. Keri-Anne

:57:05.:57:10.

Payne stuck or what, she showed her class and came through for the win.

:57:11.:57:15.

Some great stories as well in the mass participation events. If you

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take away people doing this for a living, people doing it for charity,

:57:20.:57:23.

amazing the amount of people I spoke to who this time last year couldn't

:57:24.:57:28.

swim. Or certainly couldn't do front crawl. They are out there in the

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open water dimming front crawl and delivering money for charity. And

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just experiencing open water and its fantastic fun. Totally

:57:37.:57:40.

inspirational. Would you do it yourself next year? You did it,

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didn't you? I did a half mile and then a five K run. We went talk

:57:49.:57:53.

about that. It has been a fantastic weekend from Loch Lomond. Thank you

:57:54.:57:54.

for your company. In an unforgiving time,

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Scotland had its heroes. Then, as our sense of

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Scottishness flourished, our football saw

:58:53.:58:58.

unprecedented decline. Scotland over-estimate

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how good they are. They are a limited group. They're

:59:02.:59:03.

an honest, solid, limited group. We've now got to look forward to

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the dreams. We can do it.

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