For the past couple of years I (Katie @katiekenny1804) have competed in London Tri with a friend from Uni, Stu Brown, and another friend of his, Steve Osborne. With my inability to bike and run I am clearly always on the swim. This year however, at 4 months pregnant I thought the brutal open water […]
MoreOne of my favourite memories of university is training and racing the bi-annual Oxbridge Channel Swim relay. I competed in the race in 2000 and in 2002. The swim follows standard channel swim rules. 6 swimmers (three girls and three boys in our case) swimming one hour each on rotation until you get to France. […]
MoreThere has been talk of the Mermaids going to Guernsey (where I’m (manda) from) for a while now and even talk of a Guernsey to Herm swim. So whilst Kate is training for her channel relay and me and katie training for Windermere, it seemed like a great time not to pack the wetsuit and head […]
MoreThe weekend before Windermere we headed down to Ham near Richmond for the first ever RG Active BlueSeventy Relays The format is simple but not something I’ve heard of in the UK before. 6 laps of an approx 500m loop, where you have to change over after each loop and you can have between 2-6 […]
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