Big Ricks Swim Team

Monday, 2 January 2017

Ricks Winter Swim Sets (Not Giving In )

Ricks Guildford Solo 5..2017

Winter is well and truly with us , as we speak its minus 4 outside.. , it’s Time for Ricks to move on from 2016 record breaking year and look forward and plan for 2017 and beyond .,our First big team swim of the 2017 is a big one...The 2Swim4Life 24 hr swim in Guildford in late April ..it may be the toughest swim of any year .. we have 5 solo swimmers , 1 team of 3 swimmers having crack at this event 24 miles in 24 hours , in outdoor 50m Lido In April.!! 2swim4life is thee toughest endurance swim in the UK .more details http://2swim4life.com/

Anyway , It really is time to step up...!! happy training .its good to back .Ricks

we hope these training plans over the next few months might help other swimmers, We know how hard and boring pool training can be for all of us through the winter months , just remember No Giving In .!

Ricks Blog Tune this week seems to be very apt for the start of December...

Not Giving In, (feat. John Newman & Alex Clare).

Sunday, 1 January 2017

2017

Wishing you joy and friendship throughout the coming year.
May laughter and happiness and off cousre swimming fill your world.
-Ricks x

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas one and all . Hope 2016 was full of fabulous swims .

Best wishes & good luck to everyone for an amazing 2017 .

if you get time for Christmas swim ...

have a go at this Beauty ...;-)

Catch you 2017.....Ricks

Take it away Micheal ...

Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Back to life, back to reality.

Back to life, back to reality,
Back to the here and now.....

The Summer is Over...;-( ..the final event of the season was last weekend ...now its time to decide what comes next..??? its back to Life , its Back to reality ...so its either return to the Pool..!!! or be brave and take on a season of Winter Open Water swimming .......
while we think about that...have a listen to this weeks Blog Tune....have you guessed it..Back To Life by Soul II Soul ...take it away Caron...

More to come...

Monday, 10 October 2016

All Out Swim

Macmillan Cancer Support

All Out Swim 2016..

2nd October @ Cheltenham Lido

The All Out Swim

all smiles at 7.30am on a Sunday morning

So today was Ricks last open water swim event of 2016

The Macmillan Cancer Support 5k All Out Swim .
What we love most about doing this event every year , is the community of people who get involved , the participants, the volunteers, the supporters. There’s a real ‘community’ feel to this event, and we always love being part of it .
Everyone always wants each person to do well, anyone struggling will always get a helping hand, and regardless of ability and where you are in your own personal journey, the atmosphere is a positive and generous one

as a community, as a group, All Out Swim has raised over £21,000 for Macmillan Cancer! A huge well did to my fellow participants,
.. see you next Year for sure …
for more details about the All Out Swim events
http://www.macmillan.org.uk/…/fu…/swimming/all-out-swim.html
(hopefully, we will see at one the ALL OUT SWIMS part next yr )

here are a few pictures from Sunday mornings swim
( thank you to Swim Macmillan for use of some of the pictures )