This was Team Mermaids third trip to the RG Active Relays. The first year Manda and I emerged victorious but the second year we were pipped into second place. Would it be third time lucky for Brian (standing in as merman in Manda’s place) and I? The format is 6 laps of around 500m of […]
MoreSo something like this wouldn’t normally warrant a blog but sometimes the smallest achievements are worth the biggest noise. The SLSC 1 mile Sunday morning race! Every Sunday (even in winter), SLSC hold a Sunday morning race over a range of distances from 1 width to the longest race 1 mile. Team Mermaids try and […]
MoreI (Manda) can’t remember when I first heard about the ‘Ocean’s Seven‘ challenge but I remember meeting my first Ocean Seven’r in NYC as we had none other than Darren Miller as our observer for our Manhattan swim in 2012. Darren told us stories about his swims and it inspired me but scared me in […]
MoreOn Sunday 24 July family Kenny / Patrickson were up bright and early to head down to Ham Lake for one of the regular RG Active training races. The training races are held three times a year and the format is very relaxed. The races start at 8am. You can either swim 1 lap (around […]
MoreThe question is age old – how much difference does wearing a wetsuit make? It is almost impossible to answer that question. Races, courses, water flow, how you feel on the day are all different. The closest you are ever going to get to answer the question however is doing the same swim twice […]
MoreThanks to Paddy for giving us an insight into open water swimming events from the spectator’s point of view. It is as glamorous as we thought!! Massive well done to Kate for her swim! I’m not a sports spectator and never have been. I also can’t swim. I can float and vaguely control the direction […]
MoreThese are the bits of kit we always have in our bags over the summer. Goggles We have long been fans of the zoggs predator flexes and have multiple pairs each depending on the weather conditions we are swimming in. As previously mentioned we keep some for racing best to ensure they aren’t going to […]
MoreThe Jubliee River Swim was one of our favourites of 2015. This along with the fact that this was to be the first open water race of 2016 meant that excitement levels were high leading up to the swim. Everything was going well, we had been training and had even managed a few sessions in […]
MoreFiona did the Great North swim in Windermere this year and seeing as we have never done the ‘North’ event of the Great Swim series we asked her to write us a guest blog. ps cheery bakewell cocktails… Yum or Yuk? I’m writing this from the heavenly super king size bed in our guest house […]
MoreBeing pregnant presented some interesting challenges to my (Manda) swimming training, however, I was able to continue to swim right until 40 weeks. This was all made possible by lots of lovely people, mainly Katie, who continued to swim with me despite my speed and endurance not being what it once was. It also helped […]
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