Swimming
After months of planning Riverside’s first SwimRelay took place on 1st Nov 2015. Early days yet as money is still being collected but we are expecting iro £7000. Half will go to Children-in -Need and the other half to charities that the 24 teams chose themselves. Nearly 30 Riverside Rotarians and their partners helped as officials […]
A memorable swim in the River Dart, coldest water for years 13 degrees, but a nice warm and sunny day. Bonus was my dear Mum making the trip with Sue and I and she even got down to the beach to see the finish. afterwards we had a few days with Malc and family . […]
Well, looking back at earlier blog, I never got to the Tonbridge Tri (poorly) never got to British Championships (bad back). However, having sorted out my back I have now done a few triathlons. First one in Berkshire, was going to be with Stuart. He DNS due to falling of his bike in the week. […]
Well, once Christmas is out of the way plus a 6 week break in New Zealand including 10 days on a South Pacific island, it’s down to business. I have been doing some gentle running locally, nothing too taxing, local stuff 5km max. A bit of biking but not much and same with swimming. However, […]
What a privilege to compete in Millfield School pool, home of so many great British Olympians including our neighbour Pete Lepiniere. My results were more down to earth, a couple disappointing, a couple Ok including the 50m Breastroke sprint where I broke the South West Region age group record for that event. Long way to […]
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Having done the standard distance Aquabike in June I moved up to Middle Distance. This is half ironman distance but not at all in the same league as the real ironman which includes the half or full distance marathon. The nice thing about Aqua is that when you rack the bike at the end of […]
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Having enjoyed my open water swim in the Thames on June 1, I was ready to TRI again! I found Aquathon. A triathlon without the run. Off to Ashford on June 15 for Tri-Spirit event. I did the standard distance 1.5k swim and 40k bike. Great venue. Lake temp 18 degrees and a lovely flat […]
After a couple of lake training sessions I took the plunge in the Thames at Windsor for the Human Race Windsor 3 Km Swim. Due to strong currents the route was changed to go around a small island making it very congested. 3 laps was actually 2.7Km but despite kicking, pulling and punching I got […]
Having rested up for months now and as I write this still suffering a week long cold, with a bad back thrown in for good measure, I am looking to the future. I miss my summer open water swims so I am looking forward to so more of that again soon. As a warm up […]
With the biggest storm in years looming apparently this evening, today Stuart, Steve and myself did the annual KCA event. Strong winds behind us were great but the home run wasn’t so! We did it in 4hrs 32 mins which I could never have done on my own. However, back at the start there was […]
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