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Swimming is a great way to keep fit and what better place to do it than | :00:10. | :00:21. | |
the scenery here, is beautiful. Mass participation, doing something, when | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
you tell people about it they think you are crazy and you are like yeah, | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
it's crazy. you are crazy and you are like yeah, | :00:28. | :00:42. | |
makes it. Just swim. I lost my dad 11 years tomorrow and he used to do | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
a lot of swimming so when I am out there it is like I am with him | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
again. It is a sense of freedom, you are not surrounded by people, you | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
are in the outdoors. Being able to be in the water, you see the | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
environment from a completely different angle and you fall in love | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
with the place all over again. Loch Lomond. Britain's largest | :01:03. | :01:22. | |
freshwater lake. Nestled between Glasgow to the south and the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Highlands to the North 50% of Scotland's population lives within | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
an hours drive. It's sprinkled with over 30 islands, home to 15 native | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
species of fish and eye-popping lead deep in places. A perfect setting. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
2016 is the third year at the Great Scottish Swim has been held that | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
this location were mass participants can rub shoulders with Olympians and | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
world champions. An inspirational backdrop for swimmers of all | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
abilities pushing themselves were all sorts of reasons. The water is a | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
sprightly 16 degrees but you could not have a better place to swim | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
could you? I will be on the boat all day bringing you the up close action | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
from the elite races over one mile and I will also try to stop some | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
other swimmers when they are doing half-mile, one mile or two miles to | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
see what their thoughts are. And I will be grabbing them as they come | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
out of the water at the finish line. Every one of the 3000 swimmers each | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
have their own special reasons for swimming here today and we will | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
bring you some of the stories. Coming up we have the elite women's | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
race where Kerri-Anne Payne that will be looking to go one better | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
than last year. The favourite for the elite men's race will be Jack | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Burnell who was controversially disqualified and Rio. As well as the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
elite athletes there are thousands of amateur swimmers taking part. We | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
will hear from local park ranger Beverley on how swimming has | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
enhanced her love of this fantastic countryside. And we talked to two | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
inspirational participants whose health has been transformed by | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
taking to the water. Before all of that lets go back for a moment. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Because the Great Scottish Swim actually started yesterday with a | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
gruelling ten case when and new Aqua fun event, surely one for only the | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
finest of athletes? Or maybe not, this is the swim run, 800 metres | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
swim and a five run over hilly terrain and I just found out, it | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
should be good fun for some but not for me. 800 metres might not sound | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
that long but when you see the course stretching out in front of | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
you it certainly feels it. 200 people decided to give it a go and | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
what a beautiful Friday evening we were greeted by. It's called! | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
Beautiful but refreshing. This is very lovely. What a lovely | :03:53. | :04:10. | |
evening. It might have been a lovely evening but I must confess I found | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
the swimming tough going and I was glad to reach the end of the | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
half-mile course relatively unscathed. That was horrific. I | :04:18. | :04:29. | |
would much prefer a cup of tea and a big slice of cake. The swimmers | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
followed by the run which takes part in the country park. I will stop and | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
talk to you. This is actually OK, the swimming is terrible, really | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
uncomfortable. This is all right. Almost at the top of the climb. Look | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
at that view. Isn't that glorious. That's when on a beautiful night, | :04:48. | :05:01. | |
only 800 metres swimming I found it really difficult, got into a panic | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
and it wasn't good. But the running was much better. The people doing | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
the main event here on Saturday are in for some fun, it is great. I'm | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
going for a cup of tea. Congratulations to all my fellow | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
swim runners and a special mention to Freddie Mercury was runner-up in | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
the women's event aged just 14. Saturday morning and plenty of | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
spectators were up and about early ready to support the swimmers taking | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
part in the remaining events held over half a mile, one mile, two mile | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
and five-day courses. Later on these guys will be sharing the water with | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
some of the worlds best open water swimmers. But early starters got to | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
swim with a famous face, one perhaps better known on dry land. One | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
pursing looking relatively nervous is stern McCann, how are you | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
feeling? Heading into Loch Lomond and a couple of minutes, you have | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
done this before I understand? Yes, I did the Manchester swim at the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
beginning of July so I have done an open water swim but I am still | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
feeling nervous. Looking at Loch Lomond, it is daunting. Apparently | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
it is freezing. The nerves are starting to kick in but I'm also | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
excited at the same time. You say it is freezing, it is about 16 degrees | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
which in Scotland is basically a warm bath so it's not that bad. I | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
was in there last night and it's not too bad. What's the attraction of | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
open water swimming for you? I think it's a great incentive to get in | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
shape, it's a bit different and you can challenge yourself. Looking into | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
an event like this, it's a massive challenge and when I finished the | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
one in Manchester the sense of achievement, completion, it was just | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
a massive accomplishment. I felt really proud of myself. What would | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
you say to people who have not done this before and watching it thinking | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
they could not do it. I felt the same, I thought there was no way I | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
would ever be able to do a mile swim but I did it and back again. | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Challenge yourself, it's such a fun day, so many people come down to | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
support. It's trying something new and you get fit at the same time. | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
What more can you want? Just do it. Thank you, enjoy today. I'm here | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
with one of the 3000 swimmers who will be out there later on today, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
about to compete in the one mile swim Richard how do you feel? An | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
hour or so to go so a little bit. You do every time. Tell us about | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
yourself and why you are lucky to be swimming? I had a disease that is | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
quite similar to leukaemia. After suffering with that for about a year | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
and getting worse and worse they gave me a bone marrow transplant. It | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
basically brought me back to life. Since the transplant you are | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
competing in the world transplant games. I joined the transplant sport | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
organisation and did the games in 2014. I came away with a couple of | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
gold medals and a silver medal. Then I got a letter the following October | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
offering me a place in the British team for the world games in | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Argentina. A couple of years previous to that you were very ill, | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
exercise completely out the window, you don't know if you are going to | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
survive and now you are competing for Great Britain at the World | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Championships. That's an incredible turnaround. If I had not been ill I | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
would have not got seriously back into swimming and would never have | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
been selected for a British team so effectively my gold medal is a | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
consequence of me being ill. I would much rather be out there than I | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
would in the swimming pool. I in the water, getting your head down and | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
just swimming. Transplant sport is the organisation which organises | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
these games also they promote people getting back into exercise after | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
transplant and the most important side of it is donation. People need | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
to be on donor registers. It was stem cells which gave me redrawn | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
bone marrow. My donor is alive and well somewhere. I am able to swim | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
and I can just about cover a mile. Swimming for me is basically, it | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
saved my life in a way in the sense that I have a life. It's not just me | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
living, I have a life. That is what is important. That is what our | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
multiple medallist looks like from the world transplant games and it's | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
great to see him here doing the great Scottish swim. How was it? | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
Good, long, steady swim which I like. But she could sense it was a | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
beautiful environment. Yeah. What an achievement, well done. Thank you. | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
How's it going? Are you enjoying it? I am. What distance are you doing? | :10:33. | :10:46. | |
Five? You are a veteran? I have only been doing it a year. How was it | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
ladies? It was brilliant, really enjoyed it, came last year and did | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
it for the first time and enjoyed it so that is why we are back. Tell us | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
about the money you are raising? I am raising money for a special needs | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
swimming club near where I live. Will you do more events? I will keep | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
doing the series, it's a great thing and everyone is raising money for | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
charity, it's awesome. Everyone is smiling. I don't know why, it's | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
pretty torturous. Swimming for the firefighters charity, raising money. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
This year I managed to get my dad involved so I agreed to do the mile | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
with them so it was nice to take your time and enjoy the scenery. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Different to the pool. Couple of bags of sugar in each leg. Enjoyed | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
it. It's becoming a tradition, get a bottle of beer when we finish. The | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
loser has to buy the beer but I think that's me. You did kid on your | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
falling just to get on the finish line. What is causing that big smile | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
on your face? This is the first time I've done open water swimming, I | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
normally do running challenges, I've done Ben Nevis this year but this | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
was a big one for me, the Dare termination is keeping me going. -- | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
the determination. Just either water, still exhausted, how was it? | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
It was good but it was long. The first time I've done something like | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
that. I feel a sense of relief and achievement. Have you not been | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
sewing for about 20 years before this? No. I have dipped my toes in | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
the sea but I've not been swimming for years. You look like a | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
professional well done. Thank you. Done quite a bit of training and my | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
first open water swim was about six weeks ago and I realised how hard it | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
was then. But it was OK. How easy or top did you find it? It was great, I | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
got to halfway and I thought crikey we are halfway, that seemed to come | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
quickly but it was brilliant. How was it? It was good, I really | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
enjoyed it. At the start I was nervous, sorry I'm still a bit shaky | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
because when you get out the water, you're not 100% with it but I really | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
enjoy it. Were you able to take in any of the scenery? The whole time I | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
was swimming around I was reminding myself I'm in Loch Lomond in the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
open water and you do have to take the moments to let it all sink in. I | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
stopped, when I got to the pink halfway mark, a little bit on from | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
them I stopped and took a moment to look around and it was cool. What's | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
the best thing about this? The atmosphere, it inclusive, doesn't | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
matter if you are a real athlete or not, everyone is welcome. Will you | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
be having a triple after this, any reward? Hopefully! | :14:02. | :14:11. | |
What makes this event really special is the chance for Mass participants | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
to share the water with the worlds best. Olympians and while champions. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
In the elite race we have some incredible athletes including one | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Scottish swimmer who's just come back from Rio with a medal. I'm | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Robbie Renwick, I'm an Olympic swimmer for Team GB. I love swimming | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
outdoors. I'm used to 200 metres so to be asked maybe eight times longer | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
than I normally do is quite daunting at the moment. I'm going to try some | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
open water tactics, maybe just go gung ho at the very start and try | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
and win it from there. I'm Jack Burnell, Olympic open water swim. We | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
are all coming in line. The best guys are on the water there so you | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
are going to very close. I feel a hand on the back of my leg which | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
stops me dead. I took a couple more strokes and the guy was still on my | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
foot. When I was on the plane on my way back it was a 12 hour flight. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
That's a lot of thinking time. When your back close to an Olympic gold | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
medal. I kept coming up with the response, the race was perfect, it | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
panned out how I wanted it to, it was just because of someone else's | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
actions that robbed me of that gold medal. I made ten K open water swim. | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
I'm two-time world champion. It's always a pleasure to come here and | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
have so much fun here. I will come the next year 's fish or because I | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
always have so much fun. I'm Keri-Anne Payne, and Olympic silver | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
medallist. I completely forgot to train after my race because I was | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
enjoying watching the triathlon, athletics and hockey. I was consumed | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
by the Olympics. So my performance might be a bit down on what it | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
normally would be. I'm a two-time Olympian. I looked at the list | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
before I came out here. You've got Jack Burnell here who an Olympian in | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
the temple at and World Cup champion, and you've got a world | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
champion in the 25 kilometres. This will be a bit of a sprint for him | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
but it's the entire opposite for me. The elite racers will get under way | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
shortly. Will look forward to how those pool swimmers get on in the | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
not so toasty waters. Loch Lomond is Scotland's first national park which | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
attracts 4 million visitors every year. For one Mass participants this | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
is something of a busman 's holiday. Good morning and welcome to Loch | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Lomond National Park. My name is Beverly Clark, I'm a range with the | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
National park. I'm swimming in my third year at the Great Scottish | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Swim. The reason I became a range in 2005 I was lucky enough to start | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
working at a visitors centre for a seasonal job. I met the Rangers | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
based there and they were amazing and really inspiring. I trained as a | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
primary teacher and that seemed a really good way of using my training | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
to educate people and engage with people and I thought, yeah, this is | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
the job but I want to do. So this group I've been working with today | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
are from deaf blind Scotland, the charity that supports people with | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
those additional needs. They do this day out with their members. We | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
offered them guided walks. They have helped train us in guiding people | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
with visual impairment or hearing impairment. I love working with | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
groups like this, outreach groups like this. People who wouldn't | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
normally come here because they feel there is a barrier in the way. The | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
fact I can be there and be that connection, for them to come out | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
here and get connected with it, I love that. It was absolutely | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
wonderful. Most people don't know about it, this is the sad thing. I | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
was amazed when the volunteers explain things to you. I'm not doing | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
my swim alone. I've been really lucky that I've been able to train | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
with two of my ranger colleagues Suzanne and Lorna. We'd been out | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
swimming all around the National Park. Usually you're looking after | :18:56. | :19:05. | |
the park, what about swimming in it? It's brilliant. It makes you fall in | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
love with the place all over again. How do you feel when you're actually | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
in the water? Free, completely free, relaxed, happy. Scotland is amazing. | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
I never stop learning what a wonderful country we have. I just | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
feel very lucky to be here. It really is an incredible effort from | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
all taking part in the mass participation events. Behind me you | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
can see the women assembling for the elite race. Steve is going to tell | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
us the ones to watch. Really exciting race we've got in prospect. | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
I can't look past Keri-Anne Payne, she's just come back from Rio. These | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
conditions are perfect for her. Very little wind, very little waves. | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
Don't forget four-time Olympian Jana Pechanova is always strong. And then | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
Christine Jennings from the USA really knows how to race. When you | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
throw in a loss of junior Olympians we've got a hot race in prospect. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
Now to the commentators David and Andy. COMMENTATOR: Thank you Steve. | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
Keri-Anne Payne in the yellow hat, right next to Jana Pechanova the | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
35-year-old from the Czech Republic. Four-time Olympian. Straightaway | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
pass the wonderful boat on the left-hand side. Keri-Anne Payne on | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
the right-hand side. I am joined by David Carry, two times Commonwealth | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
champion, three times Olympian. And a bit of insider knowledge here. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Because you're the husband of Keri-Anne! I'm a bit nervous about | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
watching the race! These first hundred metres or so, tell me about | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
the tactics because they've got a decent distance to the first boy. | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Keri-Anne has just come back from the Olympics. How is she going to | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
swing this one do you think? The first half of the race will be about | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
positioning. It's a long straight out to that first right-handed turn | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
towards the end of the race here. She's going to have to make sure | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
that she's in the right place, along with the top runners as well. I'm | :21:26. | :21:40. | |
expecting Jana and Christine. The beautiful day here in Loch Lomond, | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
absolutely gorgeous weather. Water is pretty flat, it's not the open | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
water we've just seen Rio. Absolutely. As it is an inland Loch | :21:49. | :21:57. | |
there won't be a huge amount of current. You can see there is a bit | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
of a headwind they are swimming into which means they'll have to be a bit | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
careful about breeze. Jana is already turning around a bit further | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
than she might in the swimming pool, that so she's got clean air to | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
breathe from. Keri-Anne in the yellow hat. Jana Pechanova looks | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
very comfortable indeed. Breathing to her left and side -- left-hand | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
side. Christine Jennings, the defending champion in the Great | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
Scottish Swim, currently right on the feet of Keri-Anne. That can get | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
a bit annoying, can't it? Keri-Anne will be feeling the tap tap tap of | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Christine's hands. She does so much training to deal with that so she's | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
actually very comfortable. She puts on quite a lot of Vaseline on the | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
bottom of her feet so that Christine will be getting a handful of | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
gasoline right now which is never a nice thing to have to swim with! -- | :23:01. | :23:14. | |
handful of Vaseline. Christine Jennings there, the defending | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
champion. She trains every day, seven days a week. Jana Pechanova | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
swimming pretty close to Keri-Anne. She's doing a bit more citing. Very | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
natural citing stroke. Just seems to almost incorporate it is a natural | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
part of the stroke rather than working hard on it. Absolutely, she | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
does a huge amount of this in the pool as well. It's about efficiency. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
The easier she can make that, the easier it will be for her. Her usual | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
event is ten K so it's seven times this event. It's a huge part of her | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
technique that she employs to great effect. The 10,000 metres in Rio | :23:59. | :24:10. | |
just off Cocoa car -- just off Copacabana beach is the race she | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
did. The Field starting to get on the feet of the two leaders. | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
Keri-Anne in the yellow, Jana is with her. Danielle Huskisson is | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
there as well looking fairly comfortable. Just look there, | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
Keri-Anne Payne has got to people behind her and she's being squashed | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
in the middle by Jana and Christine. But she's OK because she's been | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
learning judo just so she can keep her own space. COMMENTATOR: judo, | :24:51. | :25:03. | |
what's this about? After London she had got battered in a race. It was | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
getting to be a rough-and-tumble event. She realised she had to be | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
comfortable with the physicality. She spent a bit of time with Joanna | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
Gibbons and Euan Burton as well. And really was able to be comfortable | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
with that level of physicality. You can see that already. Olympic | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
medallist judo? Yes. So she spent a bit of time having a cup of coffee, | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
did she actually do judo with her? She was actually on the mat and | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
really getting involved. Properly getting thrown around the place, to | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
be comfortable with that level of physicality. Now she says that she | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
is absolutely fine with it and enjoys the idea that she holds her | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
own space. You can see she's absolutely surrounded on either side | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
but she's very comfortable with that. Whereas before she was always | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
in a panic and worried about getting an elbow or a kick. Now she looks | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
pretty comfortable. Rio was very physical, certainly in that last | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
couple of metres but Keri-Anne has decided to stay in the centre. If | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Jana Pechanova on the left of those three leaders and Christine Jennings | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
on the left-hand side in the pink hat, there's a bit of argy-bargy... | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
She's got absolutely crushed! Jenkins had to take evasive action | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
there. Carrie Anne Payne blocked out. She had to go underwater to get | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
out the way. Nice skills from Payne. David, did she know what she was | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
doing there? Forcing her to that buoy question mark she wasn't | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
forcing, she was holding her line! LAUGHTER It just allowed her to get | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
that most efficient way round the buoy there. It's about trying to get | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
as close to that buoy as you possibly can. I know that Keri-Anne | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
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 | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
Scottish Swim. Let's see what happens on this turn here. Again, | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
Jenkins squeezed out in the middle but these three have been neck and | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
neck all the way through. It's almost like synchronised swimming, | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
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 | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
corkscrew turn but Jana Pechanova got left a bit on that turn there. | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
You can see the advantage you get if you take that buoy tightly. They | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
were neck and neck and are coming out of its and all of a sudden Jana | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
was a full body length behind. What's happened to Jenkins on the | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
right-hand side, sorry, Jennings? She was right with Keri-Anne. It | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
looks like it was Jana Pechanova who had the worst turn but suddenly | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
Jennings has been dropped. It looked like she got a bit disorientated as | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
they came around the buoy there. It just shows how technical this open | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
water swimming can be. Keri-Anne Payne looks very | :28:37. | :28:56. | |
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 | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
rest of the guys in the field, you can see from down here she is really | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
up to stroke rate and are starting to kick a little bit more. This | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
might be the decisive move. David she really does look like she has | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
made a move but right on her feet still is Jana Pechanova,. She has | :29:18. | :29:29. | |
been to four Olympic Games, probably the most experienced swimmer in the | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
pack and you wonder if she is holding it back, is she just sitting | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
in the draft behind Kerri-Anne and getting a bit of a tall? It looks | :29:37. | :29:44. | |
like she is. What a beautiful location this is and I believe it | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
might be a location for the European Championships and a couple of years? | :29:48. | :29:57. | |
Absolutely. You can just see the picturesque setting but also the | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
conditions, just wonderful conditions for open water swimming. | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
It is beautiful and a little bit colder today, 16 degrees but David I | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
think he decided to not go in the water? Yeah, I give it a miss, it a | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
lot colder than the swimming pool. Kerri-Anne Payne looking very good | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
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 | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
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, | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
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 | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
is a decent gap so I would be surprised if Jana Pechanova doesn't | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
have a go. Then a decisive move, maybe five metres, six metres, | :31:26. | :31:32. | |
Kerri-Anne is on a mission. You can see down the back 800 metres she | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
upped it immediately and then again. You can see again the stroke rate | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
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 | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
is going to win in this gorgeous setting, what a wonderful place to | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
swim open water, here in Loch Lomond. Kerri-Anne Payne she has got | :32:02. | :32:08. | |
about ten metres to go. Kerri-Anne Payne of Great Britain is going to | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
be the 2016 great Scottish swim champion. There she is, Kerri-Anne | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
Payne wins, second comfortably in the end to Jana Pechanova. Have to | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
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 | :32:45. | :32:45. | |
elite women. it's always been quite special, | :32:46. | :33:07. | |
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 | :33:15. | :33:21. | |
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 | :33:39. | :33:48. | |
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 | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
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, | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
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 | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
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? | :34:55. | :35:03. | |
This is my fifth. What is motivating you? We did two last year and | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
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 | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
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 | :39:24. | :39:31. | |
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 | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
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 | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
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 | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
them that would be very comfortable indeed. The siblings are playing | :41:16. | :41:23. | |
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 | :41:36. | :41:43. | |
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. | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
If it comes down to a sprint those guys are quick. They certainly are. | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
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 | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
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 | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
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 | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
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. | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
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 | :50:41. | :50:43. | |
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 | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
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 | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
fast. It was hard to get into but once you get into the flow of it | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
it's fine. It was tough. I tried to hold on. But they were slipping on | :53:05. | :53:11. | |
my stream. They obviously weren't using as much energy as me so they | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
could come past. I dug deep and tried to hold on. It was a very | :53:16. | :53:22. | |
close finish. We were all together. I tried to swim faster at the finish | :53:23. | :53:27. | |
but I don't know if it was third or fourth but we were all very close. | :53:28. | :53:32. | |
Like every year. From the best in the world to a young woman with MS | :53:33. | :53:37. | |
who has two very special reasons for taking part in her first swim. I'm | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
Nicola Hunter and this is my first Great Scottish Swim. I was diagnosed | :53:44. | :53:51. | |
in 2006 after the birth of my daughter. During my pregnancy I | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
started feeling numbness and tingling across my body so I knew | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
there was something wrong. After the birth of a child you can go | :54:00. | :54:05. | |
downhill. Chance of relapse is 90%. After the birth of my boy whose | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
three, my MS had got pretty bad and I decided I had to try and help | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
myself. So the safest way to do that was to swim because my balance is | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
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 | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
got diagnosed properly. Nicola has been brilliant with it, she's never | :54:37. | :54:41. | |
let it get her down, she's always been positive, keeping positive for | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
Lucy and then for Ellis. I was just so happy when she started swimming. | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
My aunty and her friends have all swum the Great Scottish Swim before | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
and they suggested I give it so that people with multiple sclerosis see | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
how they can exercise and be safe while enjoying themselves at the | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
same time. It doesn't matter how weak you are, when I first started | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
coming swimming I had to get somebody to hold me. I was shaking | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
walking into the pool. Week by week I could do it by myself. It has | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
given me strength in my body that wasn't there. Everything I do is for | :55:20. | :55:25. | |
them. Everything I do is for them. I'm here with Nicola's family and | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
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 | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
a lot to get to this stage and I'm really proud of her. The swimming | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
has transformed her life to be honest. She wasn't looking too well | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
before that. Then she started swimming again with her aunty and | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
its transformed her life. It's been good. And an emotional day fee you | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
as well. It is. We are all looking forward to it. I don't want them to | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
have a sick mum that they see sick all the time. I want to be healthy. | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
I don't want them to remember me like that. I want to do everything I | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
can with them and help them succeed in life and I can't do that if I'm | :56:23. | :56:28. | |
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 | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
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, | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
amazing the boys race in particular right at the end there. We have | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
these guys come back from Rio. It's great just to see them going | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
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 | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
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 | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
open water dimming front crawl and delivering money for charity. And | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
just experiencing open water and its fantastic fun. Totally | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
inspirational. Would you do it yourself next year? You did it, | :57:41. | :57:48. | |
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, | :57:55. | :58:48. | |
Scotland had its heroes. Then, as our sense of | :58:49. | :58:52. | |
Scottishness flourished, our football saw | :58:53. | :58:58. | |
unprecedented decline. Scotland over-estimate | :58:59. | :59:01. | |
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 | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
the dreams. We can do it. | :59:10. | :59:13. |