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 […]
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 […]
MoreIf 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 […]
MoreFrom 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 […]
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 […]
MoreThis weekend marked the last weekend of Tooting Bec Lido opening to the public and the last race for us of the season. Saturday we went down to TBL to take part in the 108 length challenge. Every year SLSC put on a challenge of swimming the number of lengths equal to the Lido’s age. This […]
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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