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| who gave up...? Ricks..? Never..;-) Don,t worry Big Ricks haven`t given up..!!! we are alive and well and training hard..;-) we will be back blogging in weeks if not days... The New open water session is almost upon on us all... yippeeeeee i can all hear you cry;-) |
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| Big Ricks Swim Team all the guys got together for the first time this year to celebrate the wedding of Ricks channel swimmer Dougie Dugmore .... |
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| The New Mr and Mrs Dugmore,.x |
March has been a funny old month for the team..!!On the one
hand we’ve had lots of thing to celebrate on a personal level to us, Ricks
swimmer Stuart Dugmore finally tied the knot to his long time partner Mrs
Copeland this month, after what seemed an internal time together 18yrs we
think..!! Most of the team were young, slim and had hair when they 1st
got together... ;-) so this month has been more one of Partying than
swimming..!! With 2 team stag trips, one to a 90,s weekend at Butlins! , and
then another to the Famous Cheltenham Gold cup and then wedding. . You can see it’s been a busy one...Everyone in
the ricks team wishes Doug and Lisa and life time of happiness together x
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| Stag Trip No 1 Ricks @ a Butlins 90,S weekend in Skegness.!! we had a great and messy time celebrating Young Doug,s stag weekend best say no more ;-)) |
However it’s not all been partying..!!! we are still
sticking to our swim plan of training 3 times week, and sometimes 4...some of the Guys are doing even more, the
ones doing the swim 4 life 24 miles in
24 hours event in April are up to 5
times , even with the partying...!!..But March has been funny old month the UK
...why..?? Because of the weather... It’s been freezing..!! And we do mean freezing....
often its minus 10 and worse , heavy
snow week after week...plus there has
been a biting cold wind which seems to have been with us for months... ..I know
us English love to talk about the weather all the time, but March and now the beginning
of April have been a shocker...
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| Stag Trip No.2 Ricks @ the World Famous Cheltenham Gold cup. Prince William and Kate, plus 80,000 race goers , were joined by 22 chubby open water swimmers..! and did we party....! |
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| As always the Stag is the only winner/ Doug enjoying his last day of freedom before the open water wedding of the year .. |
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| We Don`t know who these guys were, but we could tell they wanted to crash big ricks stag Day as they walked past us on the way to the posh enclosure , it must have been the Hot Brandy's we were having at the time which made them smile....:-)) to be fair it would have been a pleasure for William join us, after all he is a ex water polo player .. which is almost a swimmer...!!! "Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge top couple ." |
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| No Swimming Today..! this was taken 30th March. Crazy.. 6ft snow drifts in England at Easter.. |
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| Some of the seals team pre swim on Easter Monday , Ricks Basher is the one looking very cold and nervous with the red and yellow hat with the pink bunny ears.! |
as we said the seals are hard core OW swimmers, good job as the air temp on Easter Monday as we walked from our cars to Fisherman,s beach was a chilly 1 degree, add to that it was blowing a gale...it was must have been well minus temps...and as for the sea..!! lets not even guess ..it was bloody freezing..
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| Off we go..!! there was no hold back the Seals swimmers, they were in a flash , on the other hand Ricks Basher is last at the back no looking very keen to get in...and u would be right.. we can think of better things to do on Cold Easter Monday Morning...! |
its was cold but great fun, The Seabrook seals team are great bunch of people, always make new swimmers welcome, always have a smile on there faces always have the odd cake or 2 for you to enjoy once the swim is over..if you are ever in the Bournemouth area , then i would look them up, you will be so glad u did..;-)
as we said training still goes on at full steam in the pool until the Open water starts again which at the moment looks like Wednesday 1st of May , but no worries really we are fitter than we have ever been at this time of yr ...the our winter training has gone 100% better than previous year , as for once we had a plan to work to thanks to our coach at perry Beeches sc masters..we,ve been working on our strokes ( not just front crawl ) , our breathing , our speed our endurance , even been working on our Racing..!! anything really that breaks up the routine , the winter swimming as been a breath of fresh air this yr...fingers crossed we will see a massive improve when we hit the cold water..!! okay we can always dream and hope of an improvement at our age..;-)) Ricks..
Here are just a few of Ricks & Beeches sc sessions over the past few weeks or so that might be useful to some before everyone's return to open water next month...;-)) ( for 100,s more of Ricks session just click this link tom our facebook page Big Ricks Training sessions
as we said training still goes on at full steam in the pool until the Open water starts again which at the moment looks like Wednesday 1st of May , but no worries really we are fitter than we have ever been at this time of yr ...the our winter training has gone 100% better than previous year , as for once we had a plan to work to thanks to our coach at perry Beeches sc masters..we,ve been working on our strokes ( not just front crawl ) , our breathing , our speed our endurance , even been working on our Racing..!! anything really that breaks up the routine , the winter swimming as been a breath of fresh air this yr...fingers crossed we will see a massive improve when we hit the cold water..!! okay we can always dream and hope of an improvement at our age..;-)) Ricks..
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most open water swimmers seem to find pool
training boring why..??? Ricks train with Perry Beeches Masters in the
winter...every session is productive and so much fun.!! All u need is a bit of
imagination and a few swim toys...and even channel and open water swimmers will enjoy it ..;-)
list of Ricks swim Toys..
Fins,Kick Board ,T-shirt,Snorkel,Pull Buoy , Agility Paddles, Drag + Fly Kite,
balance Board,stretch cords ,Drag shorts, etc...our kits bags for training is huge,....lol
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Enjoy...all of them are Easy....,!!! well they are according to the coach..;-) Ricks until next time...keep swimming...;-)
