Bristol Aztec Rotary In The Swim

On Saturday 5^th March just before 7pm, several groups of people gathered at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre.   They were experiencing various degrees of apprehension, nervousness or suppressed excitement for they were all entered into the Bristol Aztec Rotary annual swimathon.   The aim of the swimathon was for a team to swim as many lengths of the pool as possible in hour.   Each individual had tried hard to raise as much sponsorship as possible and each team s proceeds were to be split between the Rotary Club and a charity of the team s own choosing.

The swimming took place in two, two hour sessions, timed, monitored and recorded by Rotary Club members.   Eight teams took part with promising names such as, “City Sinkers, ” “Flippers, ” and “Ginny s Bad Girls. ”   Other team s names either reflected the purpose of the effort such as, “Novi Survat, ” a charity dedicated to relieving the effect of extreme poverty among the poor of Goa or the names in some instances mentioning the team s origin, for example Thornbury Air Cadets, Baileys Birds (Baileys Court School) or Bradley Stoke Small Business Forum.

Every team swam really well and clocked up plenty of lengths for charity.   Ginny s Bad Girls turned out to be not so bad after all with the highest total of 134 lengths to their credit.   All in all the evening was great fun and enjoyed by everyone; and once all the money is in and counted we hope that Bristol Aztec Rotary will have raised a substantial contribution to go towards the new MS Centre to be built in Bradley Stoke.

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