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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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