My 11 year old daughter and I have always been keen swimmers and have really missed swimming during the time that the local pools have been closed.  As an alternative, we decided to try open water swimming  and found a hidden gem of a loch 9 miles from our house. We had our first swim on the 19th September and have had 5 swims since then. We have managed 25 minutes in the loch so far and thought we’d jazz Halloween up a bit this year and challenge ourselves to swimming the circuit of the loch rather than  the usual Halloween antics! So, on the 31st October we will swim round the loch, which will take approx 1hr 10mins. I asked Imogen to describe open water swimming in 3 words and she said ‘fun, cold and refreshing’ :) Open water swimming is our new found love, but if you are able to donate to the charity that I work with that supports around 1800 people with mental health problems,  we’d  be so grateful.