Cath Pendleton News Today

A TALENTED swimmer has won a national competition in conjunction with a Sport England campaign to swim a mile at an open water event.

A Marlow woman has won a national competition to swim a mile in the River Thames at an annual event.

SWIMMING and the sea is the theme of Swim the Wights Vitamin Sea at the Quay event on the Isle of Wight next Saturday (May 14).

Book now for a day of inspirational talks, stalls, discussion and art with the overriding theme of Swimming and the Sea

Nurse swims for 365 days in a row in memory of her friends son.

A GROUP of women are planning to make their second attempt at swimming 45km across the Bristol Channel later this month. The Henley Mermaids came within 4.5km o...

Keswick mountain festival, Lake District This 3.6km lake swim has a fun beginning, where you’ll be ferried to the start point at High Brandlehow aboard a wooden Keswick launch. Follow the course past secluded Derwent Isle to the northern end of the lake, dwarfed by the fells of Cat Bells and Skiddaw. Shorter swims are also available. The option to dance away the evening on the lakeshore to live bands is included in your swim ticket. A host of other sporting challenges take place during the...

Jacob Staedler/EyeEm/Getty Images “IT’S like pressing Control-Alt-Delete on a computer,” says Cath Pendleton. “When I’m in the water, I’m so focused on my body, my brain switches off. It’s just me and the swim.” Pendleton, an ice swimmer based in Merthyr Tydfil, UK, is hardier than most. In 2020, five years after discovering she didn’t mind swimming in very cold water, she became the first person to swim a mile inside the Antarctic circle. Part of her training involved sitting...

The Merthyr Mermaid: Who is Cath Pendleton? The BBC Wales documentary features an ordinary woman from Merthyr Tydfil whos done an extraordinary thing Sign me up now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Thank you for subscribingWe have more n...

Welsh ice adventurer completes biggest challenge yet Sponsored by Source Insurance, Cath has recently been on a very chilly Ice Mile adventure in Antarctica Advertorial Source Insurance sponsored Cath on her massive ice mile challenge in Antarctica recently What is non-standard? The Cambridge Dictionary definition is “not average or usual”. It’s probably fair to say that most people would see ice swimming as a non-standard activity, as we’d probably prefer a dip in a heated pool! Howeve...