HOW WAS IT FOR YOU? SCILLY SWIM CHALLENGE.
HELEN WEBSTER
As well as being 220’s editor, Helen is a qualified openwater swim coach and lifeguard. Also one of the world's clumsiest humans, she's much better suited to water than dry land.
The sandwiches are good. Slightly mushy from being in my backpack all morning, but none the worse for it. Avocado, olives and salad in some kind of wholegrain bread. I've got crisps too, plus cake. I look at the sea, wiggle my toes in the sand and decide that life is pretty good right now. You wouldn't think I'm slap bang in the middle of the kind of event that would make many triathletes shudder.
We often joke in triathlon about people ‘having a picnic’ in transition as a way of saying they're taking too long, but it crosses my mind that this is the first time I've actually had a picnic in transition… So what's going on? Well, I'm in the Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall for the annual Scilly Swim Challenge. In its 10th anniversary year, a friend who works for organisers SwimQuest invited me along to experience
