Posts Tagged ‘open water’
Eton Dorney
The late Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May sees what is usually regarded as the inaugural open water event of the new season at Eton Dorney. This year the ex-Olympic rowing lake was host to nearly 1000 swimmers covering distances from 750m to 10k. Fortunately, the rain and highwinds of previous years held…
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Human Race Open Water
27th September 2014, Poole Dorset Held on the Sandbanks Peninsula apparently the 4th most expensive place to live on the planet. Team of 4 Gloucester Masters Open Water swimmers went along to race, there were varying distances 750m, 1500m and 3000m. Steve Taylor, swimming a distance of 3000m in a time of 44:20 coming first…
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LLANGORSE LAKE BIG SWIM
20th September 2014 The first time an open water event has ever been held at this privately owned lake. Part of the entry fees were being donated to help the sailing club to complete their new club house which was under construction. Despite a large amount of weeds over quite a lot of the 1500m…
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