So on Saturday 28th January, Warwick Lifesaving crawled out their beds at a time that should not be seen on a Saturday. Especially for the few located in Leamington, except Omar who thought he would miss the U1, tut tut. The bus journey was different than normal, mainly due to everyone trying to go over their knots, except Laura who had to learn them all.

Arriving at Knottingham (see what I did there) we were directed over to a 'hut' for isolation, it was quite a nice hut actually, well I liked it at least. Sadly this competition we were let down by our standard gossip magazine 'position of the week', this week it was only a blowjob. It wasn't even worth a Warwick Lifesaving re-enactment, complete waste of paper. I found another source of entertainment that involved tying up a couple of Birmingham Lifesavers, Andy foolishly taught me a handcuff knot earlier on. Nathan managed to spot himself a Pokémon trainer and became rather lust-struck, more about this later! There was a rather sad, well for some happy, announcement that the knots bonus incident had been cancelled due to lack of judges.

On to the Dry SERC, Warwick B were out first shortly followed by the A team. We found ourselves going into a lodge whilst in some mountains (I think it was Snowdon), we walked in facing away from the incident and sat down. The whistle blew and we sprung up out of our seats, I ran off to try direct Andy to the bit of the incident that we had our back to. Two of the highest priorities where around there, a choking casualty and an unconscious non-breather. I treated the choking whilst Andy and Adam proceeded to take the cafe area apart to get the unconscious out of the chair. The choking went into a full blockage and recovered (yay), Adam was on CPR, Laura got tied up with all the after care and treating someone with angina. I got directed over to an unconscious that I put in the recovery position, then lastly over to a complicated open leg fracture and tried to treat the bleeding whilst the casualty tried their best to stop me. Andy got on the phone and did a nice job; luckily there wasn't an asthmatic for him not to treat this time.

Next up was the Wet. We walked in past Stu Ward in a cupboard who was greeted by Andy saying 'Hello phone.' We went in to find a selection of big water bottles, grabbing as many as we could each to drag them over to the entry and exit available at the pool where I pointed out to Andy a perry buoy. Andy quickly sent me to a breathing difficulty on the side of the pool that I had to get in the pool to get to, after treating I faffed a bit too much and then was sent to a weak swimmer nearby that would not swim in unless you found her child. I spent a good bit of time trying to scout out her child, then realised it was directly below me I went down and got the weak swimmer to swim in with me, 2 bird in 1 stone. I was pretty blind to the rest of the incident so I'm not sure what Laura and Adam dealt with but there was a boat with a first aid kit in, but the first aid kit was attached to the boat so you had to request items to get them. As i remember there was a non-swimmer, a head injury, an injured swimmer and two randomers in a boat (please correct me if I'm wrong, my memory is awful).

Onto my favourite thing of the day, SPEEDS! First up was the line throw, the most temperamental of all the events. The C team got 2 people in, B team got 3 people in and the A team heroically got everyone in with just 8 seconds to spare. Medley, oh Medley. So, Medley, everyone finished I don't know what else to say really. Erm, well done teams! And the killer that is Swim & Tow that signifies to me that it is nearly dinner and beer time, everyone put in a solid effort and left themselves barely breathing, which I consider the right amount of effort.

Now was what I was most looking forward to, that of course that was the food! Sadly it was rather late but when arrived it was acceptable and after getting a lovely extra pizza I was full. We were moved from our little hut to the social venue for results. First of the Warwick teams announced was the C at 13th place, a solid effort especially from Omar who got roped into captaining last minute. Next was the B in 10th place which was the 2nd highest B team of the day. So lastly was the A team, as the team names rolled out we were wondering where we could of placed, relief struck when we heard Birmingham A come in 5th place meaning that we would at least now be drawing at the top of the league with them. Then it left us and St. Andrews, in 2nd place was... St. Andrews, meaning the A team grab another gold for the medal collection!

With the great results this meant only one thing, to dance the night away with the aid of the Baywatch theme and alcohol. Adam done his usual best of making a fool of himself, this time was particularly hilarious, involving his girlfriend and setting off her rape alarm, I'll leave it at that. Nathan got his eyes back on a Pokémon trainer but despite all the embarrassment I tried to force upon the situation nothing happened, luckily for Nathan I have better plans for Birmingham Competition. Simon managed to get himself a lovely man and a massage in the toilets; clearly the ladies aren't the only ones after him. Before I forget, Adam Martin, you owe me a beer!