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24th June
We have completed more than half the distance to Dublin now, just a couple of weeks to go before we have the big swim on the 7th July.
18th June
Mick and Helen completed the Great North Swim in 31:15 and 32:49, not happy with the times, we have now entered the Great Scottish Swim In September
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The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is a long established charity and the charity behind Childline, in addition they provide guidance and training to many other people involved in the protection of children.
Oulder Hill are organising a Swimathon from the 1st April to the 9th July. The idea being that the individual/group or club set themselves a target to complete in that period. In the past the Club has successfully swum the channel in a single evening (that is 1400 lengths), this time we have 10 weeks to get to our final goal.
This time we would like to visit Dublin by crossing the Irish Sea, 74 miles away from Holyhead. That is a total of 4750 lengths of the pool. As a Club we already swim approximately 240 lengths per week as a minimum, our intention is to keep training and on Thursday 7th July to have a big swim and complete the remaining distance.
Helen and Mick are also taking part in the Great North Swim in Windermere on the 18th of June. One mile in the lake, without fins!! They are doing a lot of training and that distance will also count towards the overall total.
Please support the young people of the club to get to their target and help us to raise money for the NSPCC by giving generously.
Thanks
Barrie, Mick and the Committee