And to end the winter seasons silliness off, a little update from chicken pate news… Read more →
Category: Ice Swims
The Fantastic Five
With the winter season drawing to a close we wanted to end what has been a superb 6 months of cold water swimming with a bang, and it didn’t disappoint. Potential ice milers Oliver Downing, Alistair Bell, Graeme Flix, Raf Oya and Alice Goodridge all turned in amazing swims in 4.7ºC water, successfully completing the 1 mile swim to… Read more →
Don’t Blink……
What a day, we’re just on the cusp of losing the winter temps so it was a relief today when the thermometers were switched on and read 3.6ºC. The main reason being we had four swimmers booked in to attempt an ice mile, three of whom had travelled a fair distance to join us. The first swimmer away was… Read more →
and relax …….
Last weekend saw the third IISA GB Championships being hosted at DCLT’s Hatfield Outdoor Activity Centre in Doncaster home to SwimYourSwim.The event was a huge success, now we’ve started to recover I would like to pass on our sincere thanks to the following people that made the event run as smoothly and successfully as it did. Doncaster Culture & Leisure… Read more →
Four New Ice Miles – Three New Ice Milers (str)
Ice Miles make you smile…. Kevin Charlton Last weekend saw four ice mile swims being completed at DCLT’s Hatfield Outdoor Activity Centre in Doncaster. The hardy cold water swimmers started their solo swims at 9am led by Diane Hewetson who completed her mile in 38 mins 42s, with regular swim buddy Maurice Wheeler following quickly behind as the… Read more →
IISA GB Championships – 1 week to go…
Graphics courtesy of our Russian swimming friends who we’re looking forward to seeing again next week. Read more →
Phil Jackson – Ice Mile #3 (str)
Phil Jackson notched up his 3rd Ice mile yesterday morning ( subject to ratification ) in a super quick time of 28.05, knocking a full 2 minutes and four seconds off of last months time, and beating his previous record by 1 minute and 44 seconds, it must have been the warm 4ºc water. Well done… Read more →
IISA GB Championships – BOOK NOW
IISA GB CHAMPIONSHIPS With only 26 days to go we’re all really excited and looking forward to welcoming you to the IISA GB Championships at Hatfield in Doncaster. The IISA GB board and volunteers have all been working extremely hard preparing for your arrival. It’s shaping up to be a multi cultural championship event with swimmers from Russia, China, New… Read more →
Och Aye the News – Reporting from Hatfield
Unfortunately for you Ray Smith is away visiting relatives, so Stuart Livingstone (Braveheart) has filled the gap with an even more northern, north of the border news report, which we’ve had to retitle Och Aye the News we hope it brings a chuckle. Please hurry back Ray 🙂 Read more →
Two New Ice Miles at Hatfield (str)
We saw two new ice miles being completed today at Hatfield ( subject to ratification ) in water temperature of 3.9ºc. Both miles were well earned as the wind created interesting swimming conditions over the usually calm lake. The first mile was completed by the thoroughly nice Nick Hinde who travelled down from Whitehaven to swim with us. Nick… Read more →