Effective this Sunday (07/08/16) – a couple of changes to the lengths schedule:
Advanced Lengths, Beginners Lengths 5 and Beginners Lengths 6 stay the same (2 til 3)
Junior Squad 3 – 4.30 – now in 4 lanes of the pool
Masters 3 – 4.30 2 lanes of the pool
Seniors 4.30 – 6.30 (Masters will still be welcome to swim with the Seniors)
Widths into Lengths – 4.30 – 5 (New start time)
Youth Group 5 – 6.30 (New start time)
Any problems please let us know – thank you.
We will be restarting the Land Training for Senior and Masters swimmers at Beeches pool on Wednesday nights on Wednesday 17th August, at the usual time of 7:30pm – 8pm.
Gym instructor Hannah will be taking on the role – make sure you are ready at 7.30pm sharp!
Any queries – just ask!
A bit an update from the Big Ricks Team on our channel swim info for the times..
Big Ricks Two Channel Swim 30th July 2016
The Team consisted of:
Claire Thorn, Paul Bates , Ross Emery , Stuart Fuller ,Charlie Wheadon & Rob Small
Time it took to swim:
England to France: 10 hours 20 minutes
France to England: 9 hours 3 minutes
Total time: 19 hours 23 minutes
That time is a World Channel Record time for a mixed team of swimmers (boys/girls) 🙂
2nd fastest British Team ever (men/ladies or mixed)
13th Fastest Record time worldwide by any team since record started in 1950!
Best news of all we have so far raised over £10,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Which puts Ricks total from just our 4 channel swims since 2011 at over £50,000 for UK Charities.
Best Regards
Paul & Ricks Team
This summer, the ASA is working with Disney and Change4Life on a summer campaign to encourage children to ‘just keep moving’ with the launch of family swim sessions and a range of brand new 10 Minute Shake Ups inspired by Disney.Pixar’s Finding Dory.
This is the third year that Disney has worked with Change4Life to use their beloved characters to inspire families to be more physically active, but it’s the first time they have focused on the nation’s favourite sport, swimming. The interactive Finding Dory inspired family swim sessions have been co-created by the ASA and Disney.
Taking place at hundreds of pools across the UK from 22 July to 4 September, the sessions provide an hour of in-water fun for the whole family as they dive like Dory, splash like sea lions, and hide like Hank in a series of activities based on core swimming skills and Finding Dory story telling. The campaign launched on Tuesday 5 th July with the support of Rebecca Adlington and Tom Daley.
Swim Loyalty Promotion The first 50,000 children across the UK that attend three sessions will receive a Finding Dory branded swimming bag from reception. Customers need to collect a loyalty card from reception at their first session which must be stamped on three separate occasions to qualify for the bag. One card per person only. Full terms and conditions are available on the ASA website.
We are asking families to Instagram their fin-tastic photos of themselves in front of a special photo standee in the pool lobby to #justkeepmoving to have the chance of winning bundles of prizes. For 6 weeks, from July 22nd – September 4th, 10 winners will be selected every week winning up to £250 value of Dory products! For full terms and conditions please see Disney website for details. www.disney.co.uk/justkeepmoving
They did it! Big Ricks Chanel Swim Team conquered the two way Chanel swim in Style on Saturday 30th July 2016 into the early hours of Sunday 31st July.
Journey time from England to France was 10 hours and 20 minutes.
Journey time from France back to England was 9 hours and 3 minutes.
Making the total swim time 19 hours and 23 minutes – a very Big Beeches well done to the Big Ricks Team – made up of Paul Bates, Ross Emery, Stuart Fuller, Rob Small, Claire Thorne and Charlie Wheadon.
If you still wish to donate (and help them top the £10,000 mark for Macmillan Cancer Research) – please click here.
To see the Big Ricks Blog Page please click here.
We are now looking forwards to their next adventures!
Well done to all of the Big Ricks swimmers (Paul Bates, Ross Emery (pictured swimming and on the shore), Stuart Fuller, Rob Small, Claire Thorn and Charlie Wheadon) who have just made it to the shore of France.
Now they just have to do it all again and swim back to England!
We are all rooting for them 🙂
To track their progress click on the link here. Lets all will the on their way back home again!
Raising money for the very worthy cause of Macmillan – see here on how to donate to their cause.
