'No chit-chat while I'm swimming'

I was never a great swimmer but you learnt to swim in the way that you learnt to ride a bike. My love for it came later.

- Reeta Chakrabarti and ZOE WEST

I wasn’t a sporty child, but when I went to university I discovered rowing – and fitness – and I enjoyed being active. Starting aerobics in my 20s, I enjoyed it, but I hurt my knee doing a class and then became pregnant, so I knew I had to find something else to do. That’s when I hit the pool. It became my go-to mode for fitness, and over the years I became very dependent on swimming.