Frustrated by having to be an official for the ETU race, Paul Groves and 41 other maniacs threw themselves into the sea at Alanya yesterday for the 5K swim. Paul describes the sea as being "flat for the first and last k but decidedly lumpy and confused in the middle...". He, and a number of others went a little astray in the middle section but his 1:42:10 did take third place in the over 35 category which won him a T-shirt! (The winner got a flight and hotel for a week, second place got hotel accommodation for a week...)

Other notables included Jess Harrison (5th woman in 1:16:03), Paul Robert Shaw (1:44:58) and Simon Kennedy who got cramp and had to be rescued by Alan Spelling. Several of the elite also took part; Dimitry Gaag, Tracy Hargreaves, Caroline Kearney, Vladimir Polikarpenko. Winner was Andrey Klijuyev (KAZ) in 1:07:09 with Olga Sokolova (RUS) the winning lady in 1:13:42.