Dover Training Week 22 - Over but not quite out

Our final training weekend - gosh, didn’t the 22 weeks disappear in a flash!

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Dover Training Week 21 - An historic swim resets our boundaries

Week 21 an historic week with Sarah Thomas’ epic 4 way English Channel solo.

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Dover Training Week 20 - Historic swim in progress

Week 20 and history is in the making. At the time of writing, Sarah Thomas is half way back to England on her fourth crossing of a four way solo. Wow!!

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Dover Training Week 19 - The Dovercoaster is open for business again

Week 19, already?!! Wow, where has the season gone. Just a few more weeks left and still a few swimmers left to swim. You have our full attention!

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Dover Training Week 18 - Heroes return

What a special day seeing so many of you return after your triumphs for your well earned lap of honour.

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Training Week 17 - The Great Escape

There have been so many people riding the Dovercoaster of late and whilst there still are people patiently waiting for their turn, we’ve had a phenomenal week of swims and successes in multiple locations.

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Training Week 16 - The waiting game

If you’re playing the waiting game, we’re with you all the way. Keep the faith, the best is yet to come!

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Training Week 15 - Dreamers welcome

Dreamers unite! With bucket loads of dreams, this is an inspiring group to be part of.

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Training Week 14 - Team spirit at its best

Class of 2019 is an incredible team - this week was a shining example. Now we’ve had so much success I suspect we’re going to be quieter in weeks to come. If you’re still waiting it can be difficult to keep focus. My final thoughts in this blog post are aimed at supporting you with this aspect.

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Dover Training Week 13 - Love & Friendship

We had one day of frantic tracking this week whilst others continue to ‘enjoy’ the Dovercoaster. Love and friendship remains the norm.

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Dover Training Week 12 - dealing with uncertainty

Be a domino - do the one thing that you can do right now to achieve your dream

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Dover Training Week 11 - a tour of duty

A progressive learning journey - peeling back the layers of the unknowns as time marches on.

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Dover Training Week 10 - Pride of Dover

There was a bit of a buzz around this weekend with various swimmers getting ‘the call’ in preparation for swims this week. Stand by your trackers, folks. Meanwhile other continue to knock out big training swims.