open water

Training by teammermaidsMay 15, 2017May 26, 2017

Open-water Training 2017

Serpentine SwimForTri: http://www.swimfortri.co.uk/hyde-park/ RG Active: http://www.rgactive.com/coaching-training/swim-training/ Serpentine Swimming Club: http://serpentineswimmingclub.com/ General Admission: https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-and-do/sports-and-leisure/serpentine-lido Tooting Bec Lido Fit and Abel: http://fitandabel.com/uk-swim-coaching/ SLSC: https://www.slsc.org.uk/ Training sessions are for SLSC members only. You can get a Club only membership costs for just £25 (£20 for 19-25 year olds) but with the club only membership you have to […]

Swim Races by teammermaidsJuly 13, 2016July 13, 2016

Henley Mile – Skins vs. suits 2016

The 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 […]

Swim Races by teammermaidsJune 18, 2016June 18, 2016

Great North Swim 10k 2016

Fiona 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 […]

Swim Races by teammermaidsMarch 12, 2016June 20, 2016

OW Swimming’s super weekend?

If you are a keen open water swimmer then the weekend of 3rd / 4th September 2016 has riches in abundance to offer in the UK. 1. You could swim the 5.25 miles from one end of Lake Coniston to the other in the Lake District. (Saturday) http://www.chillswim.com/the-swims/coniston-end-to-end 2. Or you could swim 10k down […]

Training by teammermaidsFebruary 5, 2016February 5, 2016

Open water Swimming dictionary

This is a list of words/phrases that we use regularly when discussing swimming. As you will see from the below it is probably not that useful! Thanks to the usual Team Mermaids support crew for suggestions: Brian, pivo, Hilary, Lisa, Suz and Kate. Acclimatisation: The act of screaming/whinging upon entering freezing (see below explanation) water. […]

Training by teammermaidsOctober 17, 2015May 20, 2017

~4k (4000m) swim sets

**UPDATED 20/05/17** These are sets we are doing ourselves so will be added to as and when we do new sessions. See also: 2.5k sets 3k sets 5k+ sets A few abbreviations explained: SR -> SECONDS REST ALT -> MEANS ALTERNATING, therefore, one length one thing, one length the other. BUILD -> get faster over […]

Swim Races by teammermaidsSeptember 28, 2015October 1, 2015

109 lengths at Tooting Bec Lido with SLSC 2015

Every year since the 100 year anniversary of Tooting Bec Lido, SLSC have held a club challenge to swim the age of the lido in lengths. Now if the lido was 25m then this would be a fun swim, however, (un)fortunately for us the lido is 100yds (91m). 2015 is the 109th anniversary of the […]

Swim Races by teammermaidsAugust 19, 2015

RG Active relays 2015

From the longest race to the shortest race of the season. After the 14km Bridge to Bridge the weekend before, last weekend Manda and I competed in the RG Active relays. The race is 6 laps of Ham Lake, a lock that is fed from the Thames nr. Richmond, and is 3.2k in total so around […]

Swim Races by teammermaidsJune 21, 2015September 13, 2015

Jubilee River swim 2015

On Sunday 7 June 2015 Team Mermaids and friends went on an outing to the Jubilee River swim put on by My Sporting Times. This beautiful event is a 10km downstream swim ending up at the Thames Valley Athletic Centre in Eton. Well I say it is 10k but really it is c.9.5km of swimming […]