So 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 […]
MoreJubilee 10k 5th June Manda has very kindly given me (Katie) her the free entry to the Jubilee River swim as it is scheduled just a few days after her baby is due to arrive. This was my first swim ‘back’ last summer so I am hoping to improve on my time this year. Last […]
MoreEvery 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 […]
MoreNow that the nights are drawing in and the weather (not to mention the lido) is getting colder we thought it was time to reflect on this summer’s outdoor swimming season. Over the last few years we have been focused on one big summer swim (2012 Manhattan, 2013 Zurich and 2014 Windermere) but this summer, […]
MoreGlossary: L = Length E = EASY M= MEDIUM H = HARD SR = Seconds Rest BP = Breathing pattern, so BP3 = Breathing every 3 4400 yds 10L WU — 1L HARD 3L MOD 5L HARD 7L MOD 7L MOD 5L HARD 3L MOD 1L HARD — 2L SWIM DOWN 3200 yds 4L […]
MoreIn 2011 Katie and I participated in the SLSC 1 mile race where we got beaten badly. Our egos were so badly bruised we haven’t made it back to an SLSC race since, despite me claiming that I will do the weekly Sunday races every year but never have. This year the 1 mile race […]
MoreThis blog summarises our top 10 most memorable swims. We have excluded the ‘big’ races e.g. New York, Zurich etc. as while very memorable we have already covered these in other entries. We decided on what swims we were going to cover together but we as we often have very different perspectives on the swim […]
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 […]
MoreEvery year Manda and I get very excited about the SLSC Tooting Bec Aquathlons…..and then we remember that we can’t run! The race consists of 1k swim (11 lengths of the Lido) and then a 7.5k run (3 laps around Tooting Common). Now that is a very long run for two little swimmers. There are four races […]
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