A Nelson mum was the first to swim 3330 lengths of Riverside pool to win a $100 Fresh Choice voucher, but she wasn’t about to use it on a celebratory drink. “I’ve done too much to waste it on that,” says Cheryl Baxter, who last Thursday won the Go for Gold Swim Challenge at Riverside. More than 100 people from 10 to 70 years of age entered the competition and Cheryl says she wasn’t even planning on entering the full 100km grade. “I never thought I’d do it and I only joined the pool a couple of months ago but when I saw I was leading I thought I’d keep going and try to win it.”
She swam 220 lengths on Thursday to take the win but the competition is on-going with most of the prizes still up for grabs.
