On Saturday 13th July, Lewis Carless swam further than he had ever done before in his life, to raise money for the Birmingham Childrens Hospital. Lewis, who is only 8 years old, has a brother called Mason who is a regular visitor at Birmingham Childrens Hospital.
So Lewis wanted to do something to help the hospital. Lewis swam the 5000 meters in 2 hours and 19 minutes, and has raised over £700 so far for the hospital. Everyone at Beeches is very proud of Lewis and his massive achievement.
Pip’s Channel Swim team (also known as Big Ricks) have successfully completed a two way swim of the English Channel in 20 hours and 40 minutes. After 13 months of hurt, they have achieved what they set out to do. They completed their swim with Bob Cash taking the last leg, swimming into Shakespeare beach – an emotional experience for them all.
Beeches are proud of every single member of the team – you are all heroes, and should be very proud of what you have achieved.
Last Facebook update from the boys (at 10:00 this morning):
Seven hrs done , 6 miles from France . Must deserve one of Fred’s Masterpieces famous bacon rolls , Basher and Supa get 1st round
Just checked on Masterpiece’s location (at 13:40):
Swim boys swim!!!
If you want to see the boys progress please click here.
The call has come in – Swim starts at 02:00 on Monday 15th July!
Paul’s latest blog is attached below – Good luck guys!
“finally the time has come…no more talking or no more asking for help…its 100% swim time ,
Our double swim of the English channel looks set to go ahead in the early hours on Monday morning starting around 1am.. …
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their messages of good luck…it means a lot to me and the guys ,
it’s been a tough emotional 9 months for the 6 of us..We hope can make the swim a success this year for many private and personal reasons..,..
We will for sure give it our best shot….Let’s do it..
If u wish to stop up all day and night to follow our progress then these are links to help you…
thank you for your help, your support , for your Kinds words
Paul.x ‘
CSA ships GPS tracker links…our Boat is called Masterpiece..
(Channel Swimming Association Link to Masterpiece)
http://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/csa-pilots/fred-mardle
ShipAIS tracker link, you will again find Masterpiece and all ships that are
in the channel
http://www.shipais.com/currentmap.php?refresh=2&count=3&map=folkstone
also will be updating on our Twitter
https://twitter.com/bigrickswimteam
@bigrickswimteam
A thank you to you all ,for your Kinds words
your for help, and of course for your support over the last 3 years..
This is the last swim..so let’s do it..;-)) ,
Paul.x
Breakthrough Breast Cancer..
A big well done and thank you to all of the swimmers who took part in the final round of this year’s Mercian League.
A very depleted team (from illness, other commitments, and even one swimmer – Dominic Blackwell – achieving a MDQT at last weekend’s Boldmere Open Meet, meaning he was too fast to compete), did very well in a hot and sticky Solihull pool.
With 8 first place swims (Girls Open Medley relay – Jessica Jones, Sareena Gaddu, Katie Gulliver, Lucy Gale), Jessica Deans (50m Free), Jessica Jones (Open 100m backstroke), Jessica Deans (10/under 25m fly), Pia Tonks (12/under 100m free), Sareena Gaddu (14/under Breaststroke), Katie Gulliver (Open 100m Free) and the girls 14/under medley relay team (Jessica Jones, Sareena Gaddu, Sancha Tonks, Lucy Keyte), all of whom did brilliantly well.
These along with twelve other top three finishes, all of the swimmers should congratulate themselves for a good evening of swimming. Out of the 34 individual races, there were 13 personal best times achieved.
Well done to all who took part – the swimmers were a credit to their coaches.
Results available in the members section.
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Tudor Grange Aquathlon Sunday 29th September 2013 Tudor Grange Leisure Centre Blossomfield Rd Solihull B91 1 NB 1st SWIMMER 10am This event is sanctioned and run under BTF rules
http://www.britishtriathlon.org/britain/documents/membership/2013_btf_rulebook_revisions.pdf
COURSE DETAILS POOL SWIM RUN – TUDOR GRANGE PARK
ENTRY FEE CHILDREN 8-16 YEARS £13.00 TE MEMBERS £15.00 NON TE MEMBERS
ADULTS (17+) £15.00 TE MEMBERS £18.00 NON TE MEMBERS
ENTER ONLINE AT http://www.entrycentral.com/index.php?festivalID=291
CLOSING DATE FOR ALL ENTRIES is 22nd September 2013 or WHEN RACE IS FULL NO ENTRIES ON DAY NO TRANSFERS OR REFUNDS INCLUSIVE FOR DISABLED TRIATHLETES – IF YOU HAVE A MEDICAL CONDITION AND WISH TO ENTER THE EVENT AS AN INCLUSIVE COMPETITOR PLEASE CONTACT rosa@solihulltri.org |
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