A woman raises £2,000 for a homelessness charity by swimming in the cold sea... or in an iced bath.
A woman has braved the winter sea and raised more than £2,000 for a homelessness charity by completing an Advent swimming challenge.
"It's gifted me different weather and different conditions every day. It's been lovely but getting out has been the worst bit," she said.Pam Spychal says every swim has been different ranging from very rough days, where it was too dangerous to enter the sea, to days when it was "almost welcoming" "Other days it's been very rough. I've had to spend time just wallowing in the surf and letting the water wash over me because I couldn't even swim.
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