Green Monster – Llys Y Fran

Saturday 21st July 2024

The Green Monster has become an iconic swim and is extremely popular for the great venue and challenge that it is. With that all in mind, it was an agonising decision to move this. As good as the alternative was and it was a brilliant opportunity to get a large amount of people in the water for a competitive swim. We are more than aware that the vast majority sign up for this swim, because they want to swim around Green Scar.

With that in mind we delayed the decision to Friday afternoon after we had gone around it ourselves. After our trip there was only one decision that could be made, and that was to keep leg two of the series at LYF.

Even thou Saturday was a changed venue and it was one of the coldest and wettest July days I can remember, 135 swimmers turned up to participate. A big thank you to all of them.

The Swim

The Swim itself was well over 2 miles and we added a few turns and long section between buoys, Just to keep people on their toes and offer a bit more of a challenge. I think it is fair to say that the heavy rain and mist kept the visibility down and made sighting difficult at times. But that’s what it’s all about!!

Our series winner Michael Davies was given his toughest race of the weekend with 7 seconds separating him and Chris Waters. With the ladies race being just as close, with Hannah Seaward missing out on top spot to Non Watts by 11 seconds, But Hannah was to have her day in Abereiddy the following morning.

Once again a massive well done and thank you to everyone, I hope you enjoyed it, I know Keri, Sally and Sian who I paddled in with certainly seemed to.

The Green Monster has become an iconic swim and is extremely popular for the great venue and challenge that it is. With that all in mind, it was an agonising decision to move this. As good as the alternative was and it was a brilliant opportunity to get a large amount of people in the water for a competitive swim. We are more than aware that the vast majority sign up for this swim, because they want to swim around Green Scar.

With that in mind we delayed the decision to Friday afternoon after we had gone around it ourselves. After our trip there was only one decision that could be made, and that was to keep leg two of the series at LYF.

Even thou Saturday was a changed venue and it was one of the coldest and wettest July days I can remember, 135 swimmers turned up to participate. A big thank you to all of them.

The Swim

The Swim itself was well over 2 miles and we added a few turns and long section between buoys, Just to keep people on their toes and offer a bit more of a challenge. I think it is fair to say that the heavy rain and mist kept the visibility down and made sighting difficult at times. But that’s what it’s all about!!

Our series winner Michael Davies was given his toughest race of the weekend with 7 seconds separating him and Chris Waters. With the ladies race being just as close, with Hannah Seaward missing out on top spot to Non Watts by 11 seconds, But Hannah was to have her day in Abereiddy the following morning.

Once again a massive well done and thank you to everyone, I hope you enjoyed it, I know Keri, Sally and Sian who I paddled in with certainly seemed to.

The Green Monster has become an iconic swim and is extremely popular for the great venue and challenge that it is. With that all in mind, it was an agonising decision to move this. As good as the alternative was and it was a brilliant opportunity to get a large amount of people in the water for a competitive swim. We are more than aware that the vast majority sign up for this swim, because they want to swim around Green Scar.

With that in mind we delayed the decision to Friday afternoon after we had gone around it ourselves. After our trip there was only one decision that could be made, and that was to keep leg two of the series at LYF.

Even thou Saturday was a changed venue and it was one of the coldest and wettest July days I can remember, 135 swimmers turned up to participate. A big thank you to all of them.

The Swim

The Swim itself was well over 2 miles and we added a few turns and long section between buoys, Just to keep people on their toes and offer a bit more of a challenge. I think it is fair to say that the heavy rain and mist kept the visibility down and made sighting difficult at times. But that’s what it’s all about!!

Our series winner Michael Davies was given his toughest race of the weekend with 7 seconds separating him and Chris Waters. With the ladies race being just as close, with Hannah Seaward missing out on top spot to Non Watts by 11 seconds, But Hannah was to have her day in Abereiddy the following morning.

Once again a massive well done and thank you to everyone, I hope you enjoyed it, I know Keri, Sally and Sian who I paddled in with certainly seemed to.

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Green Monster – Llys Y Fran Results

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