Originally 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. […]
MoreGUEST BLOG ALERT!! Someone went to extreme lengths (pun intended!) to ensure that for the Winter Pool Challenge he ticked off some that no one else in London would be able to do. Excessive Brian… Excessive! In November I (Brian) went to Sydney for 10 days to visit my brother and his family, and of course, to […]
MoreAs it is book review month on the blog I thought I would write a review of the first book I read about open water swimming – the wonderful ‘Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer’ ‘ by the amazing Lynne Cox. It has been a little while now since I have read the […]
MoreIt was in the Serpentine one September evening that I (Manda) heard some swimmers discussing how they had just got back from a swimming trip to New York. We didn’t have much time to chat but the brief words spoken about the Manhattan Island Swim left me curious. I started thinking about a shopping trip/girls […]
MoreIt’s called Synchronized SWIMMING, therefore, if you can swim then you should be able to do synchronized swimming right? There had been talk of Synchronized Swimming (Synchro) in the Mermaid camp for a while but it is not something easily accessible. You can’t just rock up down your local leisure centre, put a nose clip […]
MoreI (Manda here… Katie was with me at the talk) have been aware of Lewis for some while. I mean you can’t really ignore a man who has swum at 90 degrees north aka the NORTH POLE, for no less than 1 kilometre and 18+ minutes and who decided it would be a great idea […]
MoreI (Manda) mentioned in a blog that this winter we are going to be trying to visit as many new/different pools as possible this winter. It would be lovely to only go to new pools, however we have already done ALOT of the local pools so that is not really possible. So until April 30th variety […]
MoreA few weeks ago Manda blogged about our plans for winter training and today was our first activity – token scanning at Richmond parkrun. For those of you who don’t know parkrun is a free 5k run at tones of parks and commons all over the world. Parkrun relies of volunteers to keep it going. […]
MoreI (Katie) was in Chicago last week for my good friend Ian’s wedding. This meant I sadly had to miss the Coniston Chillswim but to make up for it I went for a swim in Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan is the fifth largest lake in the world at 494 km long and 190 km wide […]
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