Coniston is third largest lake in the Lake District in the north of England. The lake is famous for the children’s novel Swallows and Amazons, which is set around Peel Island, and also as the location for the World Water-speed record attempts by Donald Campbell. The swim will start on Saturday morning from the beach near to the Brown Howe… Read more →
Bala, or ‘Llyn Tegid’, is a beautiful lake set in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales, and is the longest lake in Wales. With a mile one swim taking place on Saturday morning from Llangower public beach, near the railway station, and the full length swim starting in the afternoon, we have distances to suit both new and experienced… Read more →
Hi everyone Unfortunately due to the severe weather situation Hatfield is closed this weekend. The roads, jetties, slipway and footpaths are icy and hazardous, we appreciate that swimming in the snow is amazing and hopefully the centre will be up and running next weekend whilst we still have a snowy backdrop. To minimise the risk of accidents in… Read more →
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 →
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 →
Graphics courtesy of our Russian swimming friends who we’re looking forward to seeing again next week. Read more →
New to open water swimming? Then our Introduction To Open Water Swimming (iTOWS) course is the one for you… Our iTOWS courses are running between April and September, on Thursday evenings at Hatfield Outdoor Activity Centre, Doncaster, and on Saturday afternoons at Thrybergh Country Park, Rotherham. To book into an iTOWS course please click HERE and follow the link to our registration page. Once at our event… Read more →
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 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 →
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 →
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