IISA Member Bio

IISA ID:  307
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andrea startin
England
Leicester
England
Great Britain
Country Association
Great Britain
ICE ID: 139
Gender: Female
Age: 49
Ice Miles: 7
ICE 7s: 1
About andrea startin
I started winter swimming in 2013 after doing a couple of 10k swims and wondering what other challenges I could try. I did the 450m race in the 2014 Chillswim having done my qualifier on New Years day. I loved it, the atmosphere, the fellow swimmers. It was then that I heard about the Ice mile but thought it sounded too hard for me.

In 2015 I did both the 450m and 1k races at the Chillswim. I was so pleased with how well I did that I wondered if I could do an Ice Mile. In late February 2015 I stood on the side of a lake only for the temperature to turn out to be 5.2. I spent the rest of 2015 obsessing about becoming an Ice miler only for November and December to prove to be the mildest for years.

On 8 January 2016 started an absolutely fantastic week and a bit in which I represented team GB in the German Ice swimming open in Burghausen and finishing with finally swimming my Ice mile. February will hopefully hold even more fun with the Chillswim and the IISA British open………..

Ok - the British Open was fun, I knocked another Ice mile out in the week leading up to it. Some absolutely brilliant swimmers turned out and put in some speedy times. I swam ok but really did not want the season to end there so I did another Ice mile to finish the season off

The Ice came early to Harthill in late 2016 with the water temp dropping below 5 and giving me the chance to check I cold still do an Ice mile.

2017 started in a whirlwind of events - Aquasphere world champs, The Irish champs in Armagh, the 5th Eastern bay invitational Ice mile and the British champs. Must be time for a break !

Ice Miles

  Swim Date Swim
Location
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Swim
Dist.
Swim
Time
Body of
Water
Altitude (m)
GPS Latitude
   
1 16 Jan 2016 HartHill Reservoir 2.37°C 0.00°C 1.0700mi 0:34:56 Lake 53.32°N view
2 17 Feb 2016 Harthill Rotherham 3.57°C 0.00°C 1.0000mi 0:30:42 Lake 53.32°N view
3 27 Feb 2016 Harthill, Rotherham 4.70°C 4.50°C 1.0000mi 0:29:05 Lake 53.32°N view
4 3 Dec 2016 Harthill, Rotherham 4.73°C 6.00°C 1.1600mi 0:37:11 Lake 53.32°N view
5 4 Feb 2017 Lough Dan, Ireland 4.53°C 9.00°C 1.0000mi 0:32:21 Lake 53.07°N view
6 13 Jan 2018 Harthill, UK 3.90°C 6.00°C 1.0000mi 0:31:29 Lake 53.09°N view
7 19 Jan 2018 Waterdam, Volendam, Netherl... 3.93°C 4.90°C 1.0000mi 0:31:32 Pool 52.51°N view

IISA 1km Swims

Only IISA Swims <= 5.0°C
  Swim
Date
Event Name Country
Association
Event Venue Swim
Time
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Altitude (m)
GPS Latitude
AR ER WR WC    
1 10 Jan 2016 2. Aqua Sphere Ice Swi... Germany Burghausen 18:27.00 3.90°C 0.00°C           PDF Icon view
2 20 Feb 2016 IISA Great Britain IK ... Great Britain Andark Lake, Southampt... 18:09.00 5.00°C 0.00°C           PDF Icon view
3 6 Jan 2017 2nd Ice Swimming Aqua ... Germany Burghausen, Bavaria 18:25.80 3.40°C -11.10°C           PDF Icon view
4 28 Jan 2017 World Cup, Ireland Ice... Ireland Wild Water Armagh 17:37.97 3.70°C 4.00°C           PDF Icon view
5 11 Feb 2017 Ice Cup & GB Ice Swimm... Great Britain The Cruin, Loch Lomond... 22:52.00 4.20°C 0.90°C 56.02°N Open Water PDF Icon view
6 27 Jan 2018 World Cup, Ireland Ice... Ireland Wild Water Armagh 18:19.00 4.40°C 10.00°C           PDF Icon view
7 25 Feb 2018 IISA GB Championships Great Britain Hatfield Outdoor Activ... 18:49.41 3.60°C 1.10°C           PDF Icon view
8 26 Jan 2019 IISA Ireland 1k Nation... Ireland Wild Water Armagh 18:17.19 4.90°C 5.90°C           PDF Icon view
9 18 Mar 2019 IISA III World Champ M... Russian Federation murmansk, semyonovskoe... 19:40.43 0.00°C -6.30°C           PDF Icon view
AR = Age-Group Record
ER = Swim Event Record
WR = World Record
WC = World Championship Record

Qualifying Swims

IISA Qualifying Swims & IISA Event Swims > 5.0°C
  Swim
Date
Swim
Location
Event Name Swim
Distance
Stroke Status Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Swim
Time
Altitude
(m)
Observer    
1 01 Feb 2015 Big Chill Swim -... 1000m Crawl Accepted 5.20°C 0.00°C 17:41.00 - Colin Hill PDF Icon view
2 28 Nov 2015 Harthill reservoir 1000m Crawl Accepted 5.70°C 0.00°C 20:00:00.00 - Jonty Warneken PDF Icon view
3 08 Jan 2016 Wohrsee Burghausen 500m Crawl Accepted 3.40°C 0.00°C 09:10.00 - Pauline Barker PDF Icon view
4 24 Nov 2018 Harthill, UK 1500m Crawl Accepted 7.00°C 0.00°C 31:54.23 - Michelle Millard PDF Icon view
5 23 Nov 2019 Harthill, UK 700m Crawl Accepted 6.50°C 0.00°C 16:44.00 - simon porter PDF Icon view
6 06 Jan 2019 Hatfield Outdoor... IISA GB Championships... 1000m Crawl Accepted 5.50°C 4.50°C 18:38.00 - Kate Steels PDF Icon view     
7 29 Dec 2019 Amsterdam, The Amstel Amstel Ice Swim 1000m Crawl Accepted 5.30°C -2.80°C 21:42.43 - Fergil Hesterman PDF Icon view     
8 23 Feb 2020 SANDFORD LIDO IISA GB CHAMPIONSHIPS 1000m Crawl Accepted 6.50°C 0.00°C 17:39.28 - Kate Steels PDF Icon view     
9 11 Dec 2021 Hatfield, Doncaster Invitational GB Elite... 500m Crawl Accepted 6.00°C 8.00°C 10:20.84 0m Kate Steels PDF Icon view     

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