IISA Member Bio

IISA ID:  894
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Alistair Bell
Wales
Llanteg
Wales
Great Britain
Country Association
Great Britain
ICE ID: 265
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Ice Miles: 1
ICE 7s: 1
About Alistair Bell
Enthusiastic ice swimmer and open water swimmer.
2016 Loch Ness Relay
2017 English Channel Relay
2018 Ice Mile
2019 Arctic 1000m IISA World champs zero degrees
2020 1000m GB champs England
2021/22 Covid working 2 jobs in nhs and uni dissertation.
This summer 2022 to keep up my training and exposure I have been doing a long distance skin swim of 7-10Km plus, each weekend in the sea alongside my weekly river swimming, ice bath immersion and swim drills in the pool.
In reflection from the 4 previous seasons of ice swims I have deliberately gained some weight through increasing my body fat content, now weighing in at 15 stone. I have however kept up my fitness with my last 9.5k swim on 28/8/22 taking 3.5hr inclusive of 4 feeds.

Ice Miles

  Swim Date Swim
Location
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Swim
Dist.
Swim
Time
Body of
Water
Altitude (m)
GPS Latitude
   
1 24 Mar 2018 Hatfield Outdoor Activity C... 4.67°C 7.00°C 1.0000mi 0:34:32 Lake 53.58°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 11 Feb 2017 Ice Cup & GB Ice Swimm... Great Britain The Cruin, Loch Lomond... 25:23.00 4.20°C 0.90°C 56.02°N Open Water PDF Icon view
2 25 Feb 2018 IISA GB Championships Great Britain Hatfield Outdoor Activ... 17:11.44 3.60°C 1.10°C           PDF Icon view
3 18 Mar 2019 IISA III World Champ M... Russian Federation murmansk, semyonovskoe... 19:25.15 0.00°C -6.30°C           PDF Icon view
AR = Age-Group Record
ER = Swim Event Record
WR = World Record
WC = World Championship Record

Short and Other IISA distances

Only IISA Swims <= 5.0°C
Event Distance Swim Date Event Name Event Venue Country
Association
Swim Time
(mm:ss:cc)
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Altitude (m)
GPS Latitude
   
500m Freestyle 15 Jan 2023 5th World Championship... Samoens France 08:49.44 3.70°C 2.0°C 1000m  46.06°N PDF Icon view
250m Freestyle 10 Dec 2022 IISA GB Championships ... Welton Waters Adventur... Great Britain 04:19.00 2.20°C 1.5°C 0m  53.71°N PDF Icon view
250m Freestyle 15 Jan 2023 5th World Championship... Samoens France 04:04.14 3.70°C 2.0°C 1000m  46.06°N PDF Icon view

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 02 Jan 2017 north dock Llanelli,... 622m Crawl Accepted 4.90°C 0.00°C 10:03.60 - Tracey Sharratt PDF Icon view
2 07 Jan 2017 North Dock, Llanelli... 1148m Crawl Accepted 5.30°C 0.00°C 24:16.00 - Tracey Sharratt PDF Icon view
3 08 Jan 2017 keepers pond, blaenavon 913m Crawl Accepted 3.80°C 0.00°C 17:35.00 - Cath Pendleton PDF Icon view
4 16 Dec 2017 Portishead open air pool 1000m Crawl Accepted 4.30°C 2.00°C 18:30.00 - Tracey Sharratt PDF Icon view
5 14 Jan 2018 Keepers pond,... 714m Crawl Accepted 1.40°C 4.00°C 17:47.00 - Viki Brice PDF Icon view
6 24 Mar 2018 Hatfield Outdoor... 1600m Crawl Accepted 4.70°C 0.00°C 34:32.00 - Ally Howard PDF Icon view
7 16 Dec 2018 Tal Y Llyn 491m Crawl Accepted 5.00°C 10.00°C 00:10.00 - Colin Hughes PDF Icon view
8 23 Dec 2018 Keepers pond Blaenavon 1011m Crawl Accepted 5.90°C 8.00°C 00:21.54 - Cath Pendleton PDF Icon view
9 07 Feb 2020 Keepers Pond... 735m Crawl Accepted 2.50°C 1.00°C 12:55.00 - Colin Hughes PDF Icon view
10 08 Dec 2022 Carmel, Carmarthenshire 450m Crawl Accepted 4.00°C -2.00°C 13:00.00 - Colin Hughes PDF Icon view
11 06 Jan 2019 Hatfield Outdoor... IISA GB Championships... 1000m Crawl Accepted 5.50°C 4.50°C 17:47.00 - Kate Steels PDF Icon view     
12 23 Feb 2020 SANDFORD LIDO IISA GB CHAMPIONSHIPS 1000m Crawl Accepted 6.50°C 0.00°C 17:12.69 - Kate Steels PDF Icon view     
13 12 Feb 2023 Sandford Lido IISA GB 2023... 500m Crawl Accepted 5.47°C 10.60°C 08:51.56 0m Kate Steels PDF Icon view     

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