Huge congratulations to Deirdre who completed her two-way swim of Lake Windermere on 15 August 2014. Starting at 05:40, Deirdre completed the first leg of the swim in five hours 37 minutes 25 seconds and accomplished the two way swim in twelve hours and two minutes.
The lake is England's largest and longest lake. Deirdre's point to point route each way was approximately 10.5 miles, and her two way was equal to the straight-line distance across the English Channel.
Mike Barron supported his wife all the way, and back, and did all the updates on Deirdre's Twitter account here:
A track of their progress on the lake is on this webpage The crew consisted of Colin Hill and Mike Barron.
Deirdre has now racked up an English Channel swim, two separate swims of Manhattan Island and now Lake Windermere; a heroic swimmer.
