In Monmouth and Fishguard (Ocean Lava), Bérengère was also competing and my parents came along to support and kindly perform kit-carrying duties! They were also our official photographers for both events! The Aquathlon started with a 500m upstream swim, before heading 1,500m back to the school boathouse for transition. It was a rainy day, but in a wetsuit the river Wye did not feel cold, however for the most part it was extremely shallow and the weeds annoyingly got caught everywhere, in goggles and under the Garmin! B had a few difficulties sighting (seeing which direction to swim in, which is quite awkward when you are used to following a line along the bottom of a swimming pool!) in her first open water event, but we arrived at transition at the same time.