What a great day it was on Sunday. The weather was great, bit nippy in the wind but the swimmers had a strong southerly pushing them up the coast. Vladswimmers were out in force with around 16 solos competing, some in duos and some in teams. We also had a number paddling for swimmers which…
In the month of August, we had 3 swimmers who successfully completed channel: Wyatt with time 16 hours 17min was the first swimmer in August touching the coast of France. His swim was hard and painful. After 6 hours his shoulder started to be sore and next 10 hours he was swimming in pain and…
Christmas is upon us and it is time for Vlad to spend time with his family so we would like to make you aware of the Christmas closure period. Andrew Boy Charlton Morning Squad – Last session: Thursday 22nd December 2011 – Return: Wednesday 4th January 2012 Lunchtime Squad – Last session: Monday 19th December…
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Sydney Summer has been fantastic hasn’t it? Don’t get me wrong, when the sun does make an appearance the day is spectacular but these days have been few and far between. It doesn’t stop us hardy open water swimmers though. Last Saturday 16 turned up at Balmoral armed with bottles, carbo gel shots, fancy sports…
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…
