This was the first 55 yard race of the Winter Series.
The water was a balmy 54F, and the air temperature was very mild. The nasty green algae has now well and truly disappeared.
A number of the newer swimmers had not raced a 55 yard race before and were given rather generous handicaps. Rather foolishly two of them won their races by a large distance and actually swam their very best; silly Bridget and Sam (finishing in red hat below)! Alice, having watched Nick Adams subtly slowing down to avoid a win in the previous race, swam a far more controlled race with her 'gift' of a handicap, only just winning (finishing in blue hat below). The final race was well handicapped but Andy Deeley had his first swim in the Serps after an ear infection, and came nowhere near the front.
