Swim 3 of the BustinSkin BIG BAY Swim Series - Ham Beach, The National Sailing Academy, Portland on 5 September 2010 (Registration from 9am for 10am Start) - is a mass start swim around an accurately measured course.
Choose from two distances - 1.2 or a 2.4 mile swim, perfect to try your open water triathlon swim pace for the end of season from a fantastic location and on one of the safest beaches in the country.
5 September 2010
We have been advised that the Solent Swim 2010 will not be going ahead as there will be insufficient safety vessels to support it. Organisers Champion Behaviours will be able to offer an alternative coastal swim on the same day at a similar time: along the coastline from Barton on Sea to Milford on Sea, an open water swim of approximately 3.5 miles. They do have enough safety vessels to enable them to offer this alternative.
Seahorse Swim winners Danni Pryor and Guy Giles enjoyed more accolades in the inaugural 2.25-mile Nokia Thames Swim from Hampton Court Palace to Kingston Bridge.
Guy Giles (45.11) was third home behind Michael Adams (42m 43s) and triathlete Richard Stannard (43.52).
Danni Pryor was first woman finisher and fourth overall (45.34).
Britain’s Cassie Patten finished the women’s 10km race in 17th place after leading the event up to the 8km point. The gold medal went to LInsy Heister from Holland. Italy’s Giorgia Consiglio took the silver and Germany’s Angela Maurer took the bronze.
Patten was Great Britain’s only swimming in the large field.
“Let’s do something different” exclaimed Club President Ali Budynkiewicz. “Let’s spend a day swimming at some different and unusual locations”.
Balatonfüred
The British Open Water Team, powered by British Gas, entered David Davies, Daniel Fogg and Richard Charlesworth into the 10km race and they were pitted against 2009 World Champion Thomas Lurz.
Olympic silver medallist Davies, who was making his return to Open Water swimming, led for most of the race but found that the final 2km was too much and he fell back into the pack of swimmers. World Championship swimmer Fogg swam a promising race and finished in 11th place (1:54:40.2).
In the video below, Ali Budynkiewicz and Gerry Griffin recall the Club’s magical mystery swimming tour of waterfalls, rock platforms, lagoons and wonderful shingle bays in the Isle of Purbeck on 1 August 2010.
We would like to express our appreciation to Bob Holman for putting together such a memorable day. Watch out for more from the event shortly and we hope to see you on Swim Trek 2011!
5 September 2010
The Solent Swim is a challenging open water swim. The distance is approx 2.5 to 3 miles depending on the tide / wind.There are kayaks and RIBs supporting the swimmers and also the Solent Coastguard on one of the RIBS.
Last year the swim went from Hampstead ledge on the Isle of Wight to a small beach at the end of Tanners Lane, in Lymington. They took 45 swimmers across, with around 6 swimmers not completing the swim. This year’s event is supported by Austin Fraser and organised by a charity (Champion Behaviours) and Race New Forest.
The Championships saw some great performances as Rother Valley Country Park was over taken by young swimmers looking for gold.
Millfield’s Joel Knight avenged last year’s second place finish with the Championships title after touching in 17:03.00. Early leader and recent BAGCAT winner Caleb Hughes (Mid Beds) was second in 17:16.00 and Harry Smith (UEA Norwich) finished with bronze in 17:25.00.
Olympic silver medallist David Davies has announced that he is to switch his Olympic preparation to Wales in his bid for glory in London.
The Barry-born athlete moved to Loughborough in 2007 and has now decided to return to the City of Cardiff, a club that took him from the ages of 7 to 22. Davies will now rejoin his childhood coach Dave Haller.
“I have found this year tough in terms of my performance both in competitions and in training and I knew that I needed to make a change,” Davies said.
