Five members from Boston Swimming Club made the long journey to Swansea to gain valuable race experience in a 50m pool in preparation for the forthcoming Midland Championships.

Sam Wright (16) continued his impressive improvement in his favoured breaststroke.

In the 50m breaststroke Sam set a new county and club record of 32.59 seconds when finishing as runner-up.

In the 200m discipline he qualified for the final second quickest.

Although just off his personal best time in the final he just missed out on first place and had to settle for a creditable second.

He then followed this up by breaking the club record in the heats of 100m with a time of one minute 10.47 seconds when qualifying in second place for the final.

Although he could not quite produce the same form from the heats, he still finished an impressive third overall.

Also showing his continued improvement at breaststroke was Luke Jones (12).

He qualified in second place for the 200m final and although going three seconds faster in the final, he had to settle for second spot.

Luke produced a personal best time in the 50m event when finishing in 12th place and picked up 13th place in the 100m discipline.

Biggest personal best of the two-day event came from 11-year-old Amber Nuttman in the 200m breaststroke.

Amber knocked just over six seconds off when qualifying sixth fastest for the final where she smashed her time from the heats to knock off a further seven seconds in a close battle for third place when just being edged out by one tenth of a second.

Amber also qualified for the final of the 200m backstroke where she again went faster in the final to finish in third place.

Amber produced some consistent times in her other races to finish 12th in the 200m freestyle, 21st in the 50m backstroke, 27th in the 50m breaststroke and 34th in the100m backstroke.

Reuben Reed showed his versatility at his specialist stroke, the freestyle.

He set new personal best times in five of his six races. Reuben's highest finish of the weekend came on day two when finishing second in the 1500m event.

Reuben then followed up by qualifying in seventh position with a new personal best for the 50m final and managed to go even faster in the final to finish sixth.

Reuben also finished sixth in the 800m, eighth in the 400m, ninth in the 100m and 11th in the 200m.

George Hobbins (10) was the busiest swimmer of the whole programme with seven races. George was one of the youngest swimmers in the 10-12 age group but produced consistently fast time when gaining six personal bests. George finished in 11th place in the 400m individual medley, 14th in each of the 200m, 400m freestyle events plus 200m breaststroke and 200m individual medley, 15th in the 200m backstroke and 26th in the 50m freestyle.