What a fantastic day it was, not too hot, not too cold, not too flat, but not too rough – Almost perfect. The race starts nice and early 5:45am for the first wave from Cottesloe beach and is a pretty straight course to Rottnest Island 19.7km. There is a ferry that takes 30mins, but the

OK so the weather had been and was still average so the Vladswim Sat swim was moved to Boy Charlton Pool. This didn’t seem to deter many and we had a roll up of 16 people of which 13 did the full 100×100. This was a first for this distance for Anna D, Karl, Fiona,

Wedding Cake Island – Coogee Ocean Swim Well – we have started the Ocean swimming season with lots of Vlad swimmers taking part and we started with a BANG. Briefly we had 12 take part in the 1km swim with Louise S, Talbot H and Damien S getting first in their respective age groups and

Number 2 of the Ocean Swims Series and a few other events The main event of the weekend was Bondi to Bronte but before we get to that a few squad members have snuck in a couple of sneaky events beforehand. Aside from just swimming, a few of the guys do that thing called a

Greetings from what has been an incredibly windy Dover. Hopefully my experiences will assist you guys in the planning of your upcoming challenges and adventures! My window has been completely blown out. That means no swim because of weather – namely gale force winds – this normally happens in August, and has never happened in

Last Saturday we had planned a swim of more than 8 hours as part of English Channel preparation. Question was, where were we are going to do this swim. After perfectly timed email from Iain McGregor , Tori, Ali and Wayne, decided to join them in a 8 hours swim in different ocean water direction

This year the lure of the Rottnest challenge (19.7km from Cottesloe beach to Rottnest Island in Western Australia) proved too great for 13 VLADSWIM individuals and a family duo to go and attempt. For some this was a repeat appearance and for others their first experience. I headed over on the Wednesday before hand and

Swim Report Sat 23rd saw us venture to La Perouse for a lazy 1 to 4hrs. Conditions were almost the complete opposite of the previous week at Shelly to Manly. A very good example of how unpredictable and how different the open water can be. Last week we dealt with big swell, strong currents rough

Fellow swimmer Lochie hinds was on 2GB on Wed am. He trains with us on says and joined us in melb for the HTFU cold water training camp. He will be the youngest Aussie male to swim channel when he goes this July and is doing it for

We have a number of Vladswim Swimmers still available. If you are interested, please email Louise – louise@vladswim.com.au