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Nurturing Success In The Channel

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:15:34 +0000

“ We wrote a nature vs. nurture story earlier this year about cold-water swim preparations: what is more important to swim well in cold water, a swimmer’s innate qualities (e.g., body fat percentage and mental toughness) or the swimmer’s training and acclimatization to cold water through hard work and commitment?

One 25-year-old former pool [...]

Cold Water Swimming Champs 2009 – booking is now open

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:32:32 +0000

The South London Swimming Club is hosting the third UK Cold Water Swimming Championships on the 24 January 2009 at Tooting Bec Lido in South London.

Just as most sane people are hibernating for the winter, hundreds of swimmers will be braving water temperatures as low as 4 degrees centigrade. Taking on fellow cold [...]

Clissold’s swimmers have swum the English Channel.

admin — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:22:35 +0000

On Monday 28 July 2008 two teams of seven swimmers aged 13 to 17 all from Hackney swam the English Channel in well under 12 hours. Daniel, Anna, Tom, Amina, Devon, Alice, Dan, Ciaran, Hannah, Caroline, Abi, Ella, Tao, Matilda established a beachhead at Cran aux Ouefs about a mile and a half west of [...]

They are off!

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:59:03 +0000

Clissold’s swimmers have the go-ahead to swim the English Channel. At 5am on Monday 28 July, weather and tides permitting, the first swimmers will jump into the Channel from Shakespeare Cliff in Dover. This will be the start to swim a relay to the mainland. Two teams of seven swimmers aged 13 [...]

Article on Channel Swimming this Saturday

admin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:59:14 +0000

“An article on Channel Swimming should be appearing in the Telegraph this Saturday 22nd Sept 2007 – written by free lance journalist Tom de Castella.”

(Via poolingresources at Yahoo! Groups Article on Channel Swimming this Saturday: .)

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