Two of Beeches sc masters swimmers , joined well 1000 people in Sutton park early on Sunday morning to try there their hands at the many forms of triathlon events being held at the  City of Birmingham Triathlon. There were sprint races , relay teams , super sprint events right up the full Olympic distance races (1500m swim,40k bike,10k run). Nick Platt from Beeches Sc and Henwood court attempted  his 1^st full length triathlon in the over 40 age group . Nick produced a great performance coming in just over 2hrs 50 minutes which placed him in 19^th place in his age. Beeches SC other swimmer was Paul Bates who took on the relay triathlon event,  doing the swim leg as part of a team entry. aul put in  a great swim around the 2 laps of Sutton parks Powell’s pool  , doing the fastest time for the swim of anyone on the day 19mintutes 19 seconds helping his team finish in creditable  13^th place . Well done to all who took part.

Results

http://www.uktriathlon.co.uk/birmingham/results.htm

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..

http://www.justgiving.com/pipschannelswimteam