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 →
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 →
Today saw four new Ice Miles being achieved at Hatfield Outdoor Activity Centre (subject to ratification) in 3.5ºc water and 1.8ºc air temperatures. First Away was Carol Lord (birthday girl) who completed her swim in 44.42 finishing strongly and recovering well. See how to wear a hat at the bottom of this page – Second swimmer away was… Read more →
Ray hasn’t let us down, found amongst this weekends Ice Mile videos, here’s the second instalment of Chicken Pate News – Plucky Colonials. Read more →
Today saw the SwimYourSwim team bring our 48th, 49th and 50th ice mile swimmers home safe and sound in 3.9ºC water (STR) First away was the cuddly Kiwi David Coleman, who successfully completed his second Ice Mile with us in 37.28s followed by fellow T.W.A.T.S Penny Felton in 41.21 and our eagerly awaited 50th ice mile from Amy Hayes… Read more →
This weekends ice miles have to be ratified through a series of photographs and videos, covering all aspects of the swim, from the temperature of the water to the start and midway points of each attempt. Whilst we were collating these videos our very own Ray Smith in true SYS tradition, has provided us with this little gem. … Read more →
Thanks to a massive team of volunteers today, and subject to ratification, we saw 4 new ice miles being completed at Hatfield this morning in 4.1ºC water. The successful Ice Milers were Erin Hope, Catherine Pendleton, and to our knowledge the first mother and daughter duo Heidi and Vicki Brice. Also on the long course today was… Read more →
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