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What if?

July 11th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

The Henley Mile swim is tomorrow. To say I am excited is an understatement. Let’s Do This! Remember my friend Verity? Last Sunday, she achieved her goal and swam the length of Lake Windermere not once, but twice in 10 hours and 46 minutes. I had the privilege of being one of […]

macaroni, ham & cheese

July 1st, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

Less than 2 weeks to go now and I am feeling pretty confident. I can’t believe what I have managed to do so far – from not swimming at all just a few months ago I have gone to swimming 750m before school and not really thinking much of it. […]

Itchy feet

June 30th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

Since my last blog post I have… Had a chest infection that caused me to pull out of a triathlon Spent two days marshaling at the aforementioned triathlon Concluded that it is easier to do a triathlon than to marshal at one Sold my bike Bought a new bike Added […]

Yes, I did it!

June 9th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

I thought I could but I hadn’t done it yet… until yesterday evening. After a day at work, teaching, marking, planning and an after school meeting I went to Queenford Lakes Open Water Swimming and swam 1 MILE! I feel immensely proud of my achievement. I didn’t set out to swim […]

Inspiring People – My Friend Verity

June 7th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

  ~~~~~~~~wavy moving back in time lines~~~~~~~~ Last July my friend Verity swam Lake Windermere, a distance of 10.5 miles. On the day of the swim I was at work, but Verity was wearing a GPS tracker. I recall checking the tracking website periodically to see how she was doing. After 4 hours and […]

Pack up your troubles in your old (string) bag

June 4th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

I’ve always been very envious of the swimmers (those I consider to be ‘proper swimmers’) who turn up pool-side with various items of swim paraphernalia. Those big drawstring bags containing paddles, fins and pull-bouys. These are the swimmers who stride confidently to the side of the pool with an air […]

Lady In The Shower

May 29th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

Now I have your attention with the title of this post, I would like to thank the Lady In The Shower. I don’t know her name, but I do know that she and her husband swim at the pool most days. Sometimes they are joined by their daughter. As I was […]

Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening

May 20th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

This week my work took me to London. Unfortunately there would not be time for my normal pre-work swim. My local pool opens at 6am, and I was catching the 05.50something train to the Big Smoke – rather incompatible timings. Instead of making my excuses about not being able to swim, I planned […]

Last night I swam with the fishes – confidence blown out of the water

May 14th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

The skies were blue, the sun was bright and I couldn’t wait to finish work yesterday.  Bang on time I left the office,  jumped on a bus and headed off to my swimming heaven.  No lap counting for this swim – it was time for cold water conditioning.  The water […]

Starting at the beginning (again)

April 20th, 2015 / by TGCSadmin / in: Uncategorised / No responses

Hello, my name is Claire. I’m a 43 year old mother of 4 teenagers and I live in Swindon with my husband Andrew. I’m passionate about open water or ‘wild’ swimming and can spend hours on end dreaming about and planning leisurely dips into local lakes and rivers. I have been a long […]