IISA Member Bio

IISA ID:  559
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Rosalind Edmonds
Wales
Pontypridd
Wales
Great Britain
Country Association
Great Britain
Gender: Female
Age: 63
Ice Miles: 0
About Rosalind Edmonds
I started running in 2002 and completed many events including 9 marathons over the years but by 2008 was nearly always injured and looking for something new. I took part in an open water Aquathlon in 2008 and realised that although I thought I could swim, I couldn\'t! In 2009 in order to reduce the running I took up triathlon and had swim coaching at the triathlon club. By 2011 I completed my first of 3 Ironman races, my knee and general injury problems returned, so in 2014 I took a break from Ironman and did more swimming events, all in a wetsuit. The winter of 2014/15 I swam right through but in a wetsuit. In 2015 I started Ironman training yet again but after a summer of an ankle injury and then getting my bike stolen a month before the event I failed to finish the Ironman in September after missing the cut off time after the bike by 74 seconds. Definitely time for something new.

I had done a couple of 5k swims and one 10k swim (very badly) in the summer of 2015 and found I was enjoying the open water swimming more than ever. I find the heat and chemicals in the swimming pool make me quite ill. So when a friend asked if I wanted to join her in training for Chillswim, I was happy to have a go. So on 13th October 2015 I did my first non wetsuit swim at 6.30am in the morning, in what felt to me was an icy cold river for the grand total of 10 minutes. A couple of weeks later when swimming in the sea I wondered why on earth I had ever worn a wetsuit! I am loving the not so warm swimming and for the first time in my life I am wishing the weather would get colder!

So now I am one of a group of 4 lovely fun ladies in South Wales who swim regularly together, we are loving it.

IISA 1km Swims

Only IISA Swims <= 5.0°C
  Swim
Date
Event Name Country
Association
Event Venue Swim
Time
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Altitude (m)
GPS Latitude
AR ER WR WC    
1 20 Feb 2016 IISA Great Britain IK ... Great Britain Andark Lake, Southampt... 23:07.00 5.00°C 0.00°C           PDF Icon view
AR = Age-Group Record
ER = Swim Event Record
WR = World Record
WC = World Championship Record

Qualifying Swims

IISA Qualifying Swims & IISA Event Swims > 5.0°C
  Swim
Date
Swim
Location
Event Name Swim
Distance
Stroke Status Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Swim
Time
Altitude
(m)
Observer    
1 16 Jan 2016 Talybont on Usk 1000m Crawl Accepted 4.90°C 3.00°C 23:30.00 - Cath Pendleton PDF Icon view
2 30 Jan 2016 Keepers Pond, Blaenavon 1200m Crawl Accepted 4.50°C 0.00°C 28:53.00 - Andrew Holder PDF Icon view
3 03 Dec 2016 Lake 32, Cirencester 800m Crawl Accepted 4.00°C 5.00°C 00:17.33 - Viki Brice PDF Icon view
4 07 Jan 2017 North Dock, Llanelli 1100m Crawl Accepted 5.40°C 9.20°C 00:23.43 - Cath Pendleton PDF Icon view
5 08 Jan 2017 Keepers Pond, Blaenavon 650m Crawl Accepted 3.90°C 7.20°C 00:15.00 - Cath Pendleton PDF Icon view
6 15 Jan 2017 Keepers Pond, Blaenavon 500m Crawl Accepted 2.60°C 6.80°C 00:12.16 - Cath Pendleton PDF Icon view
7 15 Dec 2017 Canada Lake& Lodge,... 600m Crawl Accepted 5.30°C 3.50°C 00:13.27 - Cath Pendleton PDF Icon view
8 16 Dec 2017 Portishead Lido 800m Crawl Accepted 4.30°C 0.00°C 17:55.00 - Tracey Sharratt PDF Icon view

Other Swims

Solo
  Swim
Date
Location
(Description)
Time
Taken
Swim
Distance
Avg Dist.
Per Day
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Observer /
Witness
Awards  
1 13 Dec 2015 Beaufort pond, Beaufort 21:37 1,000 m - 6.1°C 0°C Cath Pendleton   view
2 26 Dec 2015 Beaufort Pond, Beaufort 22:06 1,000 m - 7.9°C 0°C Viki Brice   view
3 28 Dec 2015 Keepers Pond, Blaenavon 21:30 1,000 m - 7.9°C 0°C Cath Pendleton   view
4 1 Jan 2016 Keepers Pond, Blaenavon 14:00 580 m - 4.9°C 0°C Cath Pendleton   view
5 2 Jan 2016 Sandford Park Lido, Cheltenham 28:27 1,300 m - 7.9°C 0°C Viki Brice   view
6 5 Jan 2016 Canada Lodge Lake 35:50 1,500 m - 8.9°C 0°C Cath Pendleton   view
7 9 Jan 2016 Keepers Pond, Blaenavon 12:13 450 m - 3.9°C 0°C Cath Pendleton   view
8 21 Jan 2016 Canada Lake Lodge,... 19:01 800 m - 4.9°C 0°C Cath Pendleton   view
9 14 Jan 2017 Lake 32, Cotswold water...
(Chilly Dippers)
15:44 600 m - 3.5°C [hi]
2.6°C [lo]
2.6°C Jaon Tait   view
10 21 Jan 2017 Katowice, Poland
(Ice Cup Poland)
10:17 500 m - 2.5°C [hi]
1.5°C [lo]
0°C - view
11 12 Nov 2017 Keepers Pond, Blaenavon
(Social Swim)
12:56 500 m - 6.5°C [hi]
5.7°C [lo]
0°C -   view
12 4 Nov 2018 Brombil, Port Talbot
(Social swim)
15:00 610 m - 8.1°C [hi]
8°C [lo]
0°C Tom Chapman   view

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