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 →
Every single one of our lane swimmers made significant improvements after this evenings session , and should be really pleased with themselves. It’s just a shame that we forgot the DIME BARS we promised as rewards for good kick drills – Sorry! Dime Bar rewards will be back next week! Tonight we focussed on our FREESTYLE KICK! Let’s be honest,… Read more →
8.6ºC ! Yes, you read that correctly, EIGHT POINT SIX DEGREES CENTIGRADE! We were down to single figures at Harthill Reservoir near Sheffield today as our intrepid endurance athletes stepped into the water for week 3 of Yorkshire Outdoor Swimmers Winter Swim Club.
It was such a thrill to see 11 swimmers overcome the cold temperatures and swim around Harthill’s short-course, supported as ever by the YOS safety team, both on the water and lake-side. A huge thanks to the team of volunteers that support these swims – we couldn’t do them without you!
The scenery was fantastic this afternoon – and the team swam into a glorious sunset that somehow (nearly) made us forget about the sold temperature!
This was the first REAL winter swim for most of our swimmers (and swim in water under 10ºC is a major achievement!) – and so all our Winter Swimmers should be extremely proud of themselves! Today’s swim was no mean feat – and puts them well on the way in their training for future IceKs* and potential Ice Miles*.
We are running Winter Swim sessions at Harthill throughout the winter period. Each swim session is fully coached and swimmers are supported throughout a briefing, swim and warm-up session in the clubhouse. If you would like more information about joining our swims click here
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