ASA South West Region Open Water Swimming Committee vare organising a Residential Weekend
4th, 5th and 6th June 2010 at Sea Cadet Training Centre, Weymouth
Age Group 12 to 22 years
Swimmers need to have some distance swimming ability
Cost: £30.00
Entries have opened for the 2010 British Gas Great London Swim. The inspiring swim will return to the Royal Victoria Dock on Saturday 3 July. Enter online at www.greatswim.org.
The inaugural British Gas Great London Swim took place in summer 2009 and was a huge success with 1000 swimmers taking the plunge. The one-mile public swimming event took place in the heart of the Capital and attracted swimmers of all shapes and sizes.
In its third year, the event has been more popular than ever with places filling in record time, proving that outdoor swimming is the latest craze. Despite the big freeze gripping the nation, prospective swimmers were undeterred, with entries peaking in the first week in January and many making the challenge of Great Swim their New Year’s resolution for 2010.
This list is currently being updated and we hope to publish details of more swims in the second half of 2010 by 31 Jan.
* means Club targeted
Events list as at 27 Jan 2010.
7pm-8.30pm, Saturday 9 January 2010 - London Fields Lido, E8 3EU.
Since re-opening after an 18-year hiatus in 2006, London Fields lido has become one of Hackney’s favourite recreational spots, a magnet for sun-worshippers in the summer and a reliable resource for serious swimmers in the cooler months.
In celebration of its success, there will be an evening of all things Lido-related on Saturday. Organised by local art curator Adriana Marques, the event will look at the history of the lido, and of open-air pools in general, and will feature films (including one effort by Tracey Emin), a live band, and a magician, plus a selection of seasonally warm treats from the cafe.
Saturday 9 January 2010 - Leybourne Lake
Kent Triathlon Club ‘Team Outrageous’ are organising some Cold Water Races at their Lake in Kent and it would be great to see our Club enter a team and as many of you as possible swimming in the races. It will be great practise for anyone going to Lake Bled.
The races are going to be run in similar format to those at Tooting Bec Lido, but in a beautifully clean and fresh lake.
Our congratulations go to East Dorset Open Water Club member Ann McGrath who successfully completed a Channel relay swim on 6 August 2009 with three male team-mates who answered her advertisement on the Channel Swimming Association website!
The 49-year-old swimming teacher from Mudeford did not swim as a child after she was diagnosed with a hole in the heart.
Club members were amongst the 1200 people who swam the 1.4 miles from Bournemouth to Boscombe piers on a windy Sunday 19 July in aid of the British Heart Foundation. Organisers hope to raise £85,000 from the event through registration fees and sponsorship.
If you missed the event, another BHF swim takes place in Weymouth on 9 August 2009.
Cassie Patten, one of the Olympic heroines from Beijing, has signed up to take part in the inaugural Great East Swim. The 22 year old, who won bronze in the 10k open water swim in 2008, was also the winner of the inaugural Great North Swim in Lake Windermere last year.
The Great East Swim makes it’s debut at Alton Water, Suffolk on 26 September 2009 and is over a distance of one mile. Swimmers will be set off in waves of approximately 200 and the event will be televised for broadcast on Channel 4.
29 August 2009 - Strathclyde Park, Glasgow
The event at the home of the 2010 Commonwealth Games Open Water Swimming is open to 2000 swimmers aged 16 plus. It is the latest event to be announced as part of Great Swim - a new series of one mile mass participation televised events taking place throughout the UK, following the success of the Great North Swim, which made its debut in Windermere in September 2008 as Britain’s biggest open water mass participation swim.
