Four Serpie girls are heading to France, writes Jaana Tarma to take part in the cold water event in a mountain lake. Laure has been helping to organise the event, so luckily we were not completely dependant on the official information, as form filling in Catalan proved to quite challenging.
The competition venue itself is at 1200 metres altitude, on the Pyrenees between Toulouse and Barcelona. Rumour has it that the organisers wanted to make it a really cold water event, so they drained half of the lake and filled it again from an icy stream coming straight from the ice fields. Distances are 50m, 450m and 1,000m, and mixed relay.
The competition is going to be fierce as teams have been training hard as images below show.
