On New Years Eve this intrepid band of winter swimmers braved the very cold waters of Harthill Reservoir. The water temperature was down to 2.4ºC and there was still Christmas snow on the ground. A brilliant swim by all who took part – followed by hot soup and cake to warm up!!! (Thanks Ian!) Our Winter Swim Clubs continue throughout… Read more →
HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope that you have had a great festive season and wish you a very prosperous and successful 2015! We know that lots of you have begun your goal-setting for this new year and we hope that some of you will be entering our swim events as part of those challenges! At swimyourswim we are passionate… Read more →
Will you be hitting the lanes as part of your swim training this winter? In October this year we started our coached lane sessions in order to give our open water swimming friends a place to train and develop their swim during the winter months. We would like to thank all of you who have been able to attend… Read more →
With water temperatures of 3.5ºC at Harthill Reservoir, Sheffield, and 5.2ºC at Activities Away, Lincoln, this weekend’s Winter Swim Clubs were full of some very determined and shivering swimmers! We are so proud of all our Winter Swim Club swimmers – it has been such a privilege to coach you over the past few weeks and to see your determination… Read more →
The YOS Winter Swim Club, based at Harthill Reservoir, will now be at 2.30pm on Saturday 13th December – due to a Christmas Clay Pigeon Shoot event that lots of us are attending. You can find out more about the shoot here if you’d like to join us! This Saturday’s swim is going to be a cold one! Last Saturday we… Read more →
Fancy blowing away the cobwebs on Boxing Day and help raise money for charity? Then join us at Activities Away in Lincoln at 10.00am for a swim to help two charities, Age UK and the NSPCC. Steve Paulton who owns the venue is kindly donating the usual swim fee (£5) to the two charities, so please grab your friends, family and… Read more →
The weather report for tomorrow at Harthill is suggesting an air temperature of 6ºC – so the water could be down to ‘scary’ Ice Mile temperatures of 5ºC or under! We are really looking forward to welcoming our Winter Swim Club members at Harthill Reservoir from 1pm tomorrow – in the water for 1.30pm!!! We hope you can join us!… Read more →
At swimyourswim we really value TEAM, so we are very excited to announce that we have a new team member on our coaching team. Please welcome Rekha Ravichandran… Rekha has been supporting us with our coached lane swim sessions over the past few weeks and has proved to be a tremendous asset to our swimming ‘family’. Rekha is an accomplished triathlete… Read more →
BREAKING NEWS FOR ALL OUR SWIMMERS… We are really excited to announce that we have a new venue and a new time for our coached lane sessions. These sessions have been going so well but we think that our new location and training times will make them much more accessible to folk who want to train for next years’ triathlons… Read more →
On 30th November 2013, exactly one year ago, Leon and Alistair, founding coaches at Swimyourswim, successfully achieved the ‘ultimate’ in winter swims – an Ice Mile. Swimming just over one mile in Treeton Dyke, at a temperature of 4.1ºC, they became the 64th and 65th ice milers in the world! This was one of the hardest swims either of them have ever attempted and… Read more →
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