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.

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Click to pre-order Lewis Gordon Pugh’s 304 page hardcover book Achieving the Impossible: A Fearless Hero. A Fragile Earth. published by Simon & Schuster Ltd (1 April 2010)

In July 2007, Lewis Gordon Pugh became the first person to swim at the North Pole, in temperatures that would kill a normal person, primarily to raise awareness of climate change. Nicknamed ‘the human polar bear’ for his ability to raise his body temperature at will, he has pioneered swims in the world’s most hostile waters, redefining what it is possible to achieve in terms of endurance.

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Lewis Gordon Pugh was the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean of the world and over a period of 20 years he pioneered more swims around famous landmarks than any other swimmer in history. During this period Lewis witnessed the oceans change rapidly due to pollution, over fishing and climate change.

View video of Lewis’ talk at BIF-4 (Business Innovation Factory).

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The Institute of Sport and Recreation Management have been contacted by a film production company who are working on a film in production in the UK.

The company are looking for two female cold water swimmers aged between 18-30, Caucasian and with roughly the following measurements (5’7 height / 34″ chest and 26″ waist) to body double one of the actors for a scene they are shooting in a waterfall in Wales in July. Are you or anyone you know interested?

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22 to 24 January 2010 – Bled, Slovenia

Bled is a jewel amongst Alpine resorts, with majestic mountains reflected on the lake’s surface, sun, tranquility and lots of fresh air. Lake Bled is usually frozen in January. With the water temperature suited for Winter Swimming, will you be up for the challenge of taking on the Russians and Finns?

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Lewis Gordon Pugh became the first human to complete a long distance swim at the Geographic North Pole. By swimming in a region that was once completely covered in ice, Lewis showed the world that climate change is happening and we have the power to stop it.

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Wearing baggy shorts while swimming breaststroke, Win Hof swam 57.5m in his Guinness World Record ice swim in 2000 under a lake near Kolari, Finland, inside the Arctic Circle.

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Several swimmers from Serpentine Swimming Club went to help Sakura Hingley out with her research into cold water immersion in Portsmouth. The experiments involved 10 ‘normal’ people (Leeds University students) and 10 people that had acclimatised to cold water and swam in it regularly (the Serpentine swimmers), and aimed to discover how they differ.

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CNN’s Robyn Curnow reports on Lewis Pugh’s drive to push his body and mind to swim in the worlds coldest waters.

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6-8 February 2009 in Imatra, Finland

OK bobble hats, dressing gowns at the ready, take a look at some of the events from this year’s competition.

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