What a season. We started with chilly water, endured weeks of rain, some mega Dovercoaster weeks and despite all of that we have seen some incredible performances. Well done to everyone. Yet again the sun shone on our end of season fun.

See you for the winter chilli dips

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Week 21: A week of highs and lows

Sorry for such a long delay in this blog, I’ve been somewhat busy in Croatia and am writing the end of this at the airport!! What a tough week we had last week. Some real highs and lows. Our hearts fell for those who didn’t make it across and we cheered for those did. The impressive training performances also continued.

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Week 20: Tracktastic week!

A break in the Dovercoaster and the successes are rolling in again. What a buzz on the beach!!

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Week 19: What was that big yellow circle in the sky? 🔆

Apologies for the late blog, the weather finally took a turn for the better and I’ve been out on a relay. We already have some amazing swims to call out next weekend and I’m looking forward to that!

As for this weekend, sunshine - bring me sunshine! It was glorious!

We had some incredible personal achievements from Kevin & Jennifer and shenanigans from Josh & Katherine, and a whole lot of other action & fun. Read on…..

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Week 18: The wait goes on

What is it with this weather - enough already! As we move towards leaving August behind us, I hope there is a glimmer of better weather ahead. Fingers crossed! Well done to everyone playing the waiting game.

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Week 17: We like to count!

We like to count all sorts of things over the weekend. Our favourite thing to count is your successes in training and on the big day. Keep up the great work despite the Dovercoaster.

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Week 16: An action packed weekend

What an action packed weekend. The sun made a very welcome return. Bonnie continued her beach crew development. Swimmers continued to inspire us and we responded well to an incident with a member of the public. #Classof2021

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Week 15: Even the buckets wanted to swim

Wind and rain - nothing stops #Classof2021

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Week 14: Expect the unexpected (again)

Whilst it’s always nice to have a bit of sun to brighten the mood, the torrential rain didn’t stop some pretty impressive physical performances and demonstrations of true grit & determination.

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Week 13: Shifting barstools

Progress isn’t always linear and that’s ok. This weekend we had some great breakthrough moments - barstools definitely shifted.

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Week 12: Oh my shattered nerves!!

What a glorious weekend (at last the one we’ve been waiting for). With events scattered across the country it was a weekend of massive success all round.

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Week 11: A weekend of victory & oh so nears

So many hopes, so many fears and all those oh so nears…… There are many parallels between our sport and the England football story. Triumphs, challenges and opportunities to regroup and move forwards.

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Week 10: A weekend of two halves

More MASSIVE achievements with people achieving things that we knew they could but perhaps they didn’t! What was with the weather though? Definitely days of two halves!

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Intensity week

What a fabulous group of swimmers we had on this very special week. You were a delight to work with and you should be very proud of your achievements and expert demon slaying!

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Week 9: Moonlight & memories

Oh what a night! What a weekend. Early starts, long swims and fantastic buddy support.

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Weeks 7 & 8: Quality qualifiers!

Two weeks in one update - what did I notice? The water temp has shot up and the qualifiers came rolling in! I’ve loved seeing the team spirit in action on the beach. Swimmers supporting swimmers. Lots of questions on feeding, hopefully addressed in this blog.

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Week 6: Back to basics

Lots of smiles of success on the beach this weekend and quite right too, you were phenomenal. We went back to basics with our theme and you stepped up. I wonder if you’ll all get in so quickly next week, I know you can!

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Week 5: Hello sunshine my old friend!

Sun, feeding, pilot boats, night swims, heaps of qualifying swims. What an action packed weekend!

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Week 4: There's no such thing as bad weather........

There’s a saying that goes along the lines of ‘There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing choices!’ I suspect some who were training would challenge that statement this weekend!

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