Swimathon question

[SkankingMopoke]

Does anyone know if you are allowed to pause for a rest in the pool (like during a normal lane swim), or does it have to be continuous? My DD would like to sign up for Cancer Research's upcoming swimathon, and we are trying to work out what would be the best distance to try for. I can see one toilet break is allowed in the rules, but I can't see anything about catch-your-breath breaks.
She comfortably swam 1000m continuously in October (at her swim school's distance swim evening), but was allowed to use backstroke and utilised that every so often to have a rest. No backstroke is allowed for this, so we need to calculate what is achievable.

Bumping for the evening traffic 🤞🏻

Yes, you can pause as often as you like... and as you may end up in quite a mixed ability lane, then you should pause to allow faster people to pass.

That's fantastic news, thank you!
Yes, I have been beginning to take her to lane swims to teach her lane etiquette. Our pool usually runs a 6-lane session and she keeps pace with the adults in the slower of the two medium lanes fine, so she shouldn't be a nuisance on the speed front. I am assuming they would group swimmers together by distance chosen, which would end up roughly corresponding to speed/ability? She still needs to improve awareness of other swimmers so she can let them pass/give them enough of a headstart to not be on their heels the entire length of the pool, but we have 3 months to get that part right and she's already making good progress. A firm re-education was needed, as the swim school distance evenings (and lessons for that matter) are carnage with the kids just swimming over and under each other however they need to to get where they're going 🙈

Most pools group swimmers together according to the pace they have suggested, rather than distance. The last time that I did 5km, I spent most of the time on my own as the others in my lane were doing shorter distances.