Our first outdoor swimming course of the season started off with a splash this Saturday. Our guests for the day braved chilly conditions that have kept even hardened swimmers away from their open water training over the last few weeks.
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First into the water for Open Water Swimming…
Short & Sweet Birkrigg Fell Race, Ulverston.
Cold Water Swimming, An Obsession?
I go for the dive so there is no backing out, my head explodes with needles of cold and my feet are on fire, and not in a good way, but the rest of my pale winter body is amped and fizzing with sensations and I’m in bloody heaven. I swim back towards Andy, she’s shaking her head and chewing on a sandwich… she looks colder than I am! Obsession. It’s a strong word but that’s what outdoor swimming has become for me. (more…)
Janet’s Foss and the Emergency Rescue Incident
Ambleside Ramblings: Tesco In, Blacks Out?
It’s a tough time in retail at the moment indoors or outdoors, there’s a fair bit of rambling and bed swapping in the outdoor sector with stores closing, businesses moving or changing hands.
Blacks Leisure who own Millets, Blacks and the Peter Storm Brand, have put themselves up for sale this week, after failing to weather storms of there own,
Crocodile Rock and Run
The Great North Swim Bandit Run
The Great North Swim 2011 in Windermere has been the biggest open water swimming event in the UK, an awesome achievement on behalf of the organisers and for each and everyone who took part, amazing.
The setting, Windermere is also what makes it amazing, the views of the Lake District fells from the Low Wood Hotel, the host venue for the swim, are world class. (more…)
