To celebrated nearly being at the end of the Winter Pool Challenge and the start of the open water swimming season, on Saturday Team Mermaids and friends went for a swim at Brockwell Lido with lunch and cake afterwards. Well I say all of us – Pivo ditched us in favour of trying to notch […]
MoreBack in January I (Katie) blogged about my experiences of swimming the Swimathon over the past 25 years from my first swim aged 10 to taking part last year as part of my hen weekend. I also mentioned that I was expecting a baby at the end of January and Swimathon 2015 was going to […]
MoreOne of our friends, Lisa, did 2 pool crawls in 2 weeks… Exhausting! Here is how she did.. P.s Check out Lisa’s blog here where she is blogging about her solo channel swim coming up September 2015 Manda Unfortunately I haven’t been able to join the rest of the group on the last few ‘Pool Crawl’s’ […]
MoreThe winter pool challenge is coming to an end in a month’s time. I’m (Manda) pleased we did it but I am not going to be sorry to see the back of it to be honest. Schlepping around pools has been mentally and physically exhausting and while we’ve discovered some amazing pools (Marshall St Baths), […]
MoreThe idea was to do another pool crawl in February but then Katie had her baby 2 weeks later.. so she wasn’t around to participate, Pivo was doing his mile a day February challenge and I (Manda) had an ear infection/was away. We got to March and decided it was time to get one in as […]
More**UPDATED 25/02/17** These ~2.5km sets are ideal if you are training for the 2.5km individual swimathon. Even if you aren’t they are good bases for any training especially if you are normally just a “plodder”. We have a page for 3k sets in a 30m pool. If you are training in a 25m pool then […]
MoreRegular swimmers in the UK will not have failed to miss all the advertising at their local pool for the 2015 Swimathon. This has made me think back on the times I have taken part in the Swimathon over the last nearly 25 years. The Swimathon is a swimming challenge which absolutely everyone who loves […]
MoreManda and I live in London. There are so many fantastic and historic pools all across the city, only a fraction of which we have ever swum in. To try and rectify this we decided, along with some of our swimming friend (Katie, Brian, Pivo and Lisa), to embark on the “Winter Pool Challenge 2014/15”. […]
MoreOriginally Katie and I (Manda) had decided that after Zurich we wanted to do something long in 2014 but not AS long. Not so long that we would be required to lose every weekend to the water from January to the swim. We had pretty much dedicated the whole first 8 months of 2013 to training for […]
MoreWe’ve done a fair few SwimTreks between us… 8 in total. There are 6 detailed below. The final 2 we are waiting on Suz for… we could be in for a long wait. So until then enjoy the below. Katie and Kate‘s Croatian trip, 2010 This was the first SwimTrek that Kate and I went on together. […]
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