The Great North Swim 2016

By Colin | 25/09/2016

A strong contingent from GMSC were in the Lake District for this year’s Great North Swim, with the added bonus (?) of the new 10k event for those who don’t easily get bored or who have a Channel Swim to prep for. Friday was apparently warm and sunny, but Saturday saw the more usual drizzle…

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Serpentine – 2016

By Colin | 25/09/2016

Report by Brian Armstrong Well that was a weekend!! Four Gloucester Masters open water swimmers braved the inaugural British Open Water Swimming Championships at the Swim Serpentine event on September 25th–and three came away with some hardware!! The event followed on from the mass participation swim on the Saturday where over 4000 swimmers converged on…

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Buttermere 10K swim

By Colin | 11/09/2016

Report by Penny Hickson – 11 September 2016 – As the sole representative of GMSC I made my way up to the lake district to attempt my first (non-tide assisted) 10k swim. I did a ‘recccie’ of the area first – which was just as well as I hadn’t realised that it would take so…

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LEN Masters Championships – London

By Colin | 25/05/2016

These Championships were always going to be busy given that it was an opportunity to swim in the pool used in the last Olympic Games. So it was that 10000+ Masters Swimmers from descended on London between May 25th and 29th. However, such popularity brings its own problems and the organisation of the whole event…

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