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London & Kent Open Water Champs

Published June 28, 2018 Uncategorized Closed

Congratulations to our team that competed at the combined London Region and Kent County Open Water Championships on Saturday 30th June! We had 11 competitors, which was our biggest ever team and they brought home a significant collection of medals including 9 Kent podium places:
Alana 2k GOLD and 3^rd 13y/o overall
Maddy 3k GOLD and 3^rd 14y/o overall
Grace 2km SILVER and 4^th 12y/o overall
William 2k SILVER and 4^th 12y/o overall
Ben 3k SILVER and 4^th 14y/o overall
Steph 3k SILVER and 6^th 14y/o overall
Nicole 3k SILVER and 11^th 15y/o overall
Lily 5k BRONZE and 3^rd 16 y/o overall
Ollie 2k BRONZE and 9^th 12y/o overall

Thank you to Amanda Jewell for being a brilliant Team Manager whilst Karen Crabtree ran the London Region event entries, results and presentations on the day!

Presentation Evening – Save the Date

Published June 25, 2018 Uncategorized Closed

This year’s Presentation Evening will be held on Friday 5th October at the Winter Gardens. Every swimmer and families are welcome.

Medals and certificates from Club Championships will be awarded at Presentation Evening. (Please return trophies to Hartsdown asap).

Event sponsors and donations would be appreciated, please get in touch with Scott Miles if you can help.

Bookings for guest list opening soon.

More information is provided on our Presentation Evening web-page [here].

Open Water News

Published June 25, 2018 Uncategorized Closed

2018-06-16 Maisie Kent OW Trophies Congratulations to Maisie Macartney on being awarded the Kent County ASA Open Water Swimmer of the Year award at their annual award ceremony last week.
Well done also to Maisie and Oscar Macartney who both competed at the Great East Swim on Saturday 23^rd June. Maisie was the overall winner of the Womens’ Elite race and Oscar won the Mens’ Open 2-mile race.

Nutrition Workshop

Published June 17, 2018 Uncategorized Closed

The Club held a nutrition workshop on the 17th June, the talks were given by Andy Shepherd of Absolute Sports Nutrition. Andy explained how to eat to optimise performance, what to eat on gala days, optimal digestion times for training and competing, how to cope nutritionally with early morning swims, how to support the evolving nutritional needs of a swimmer though puberty and how to incorporate nutritional strategies to reduce the risk of injury and promote longevity in swimming.
Andy’s presentation, other information and recipes can be found here: www.bit.ly/Thanet18
Many thanks to Clare Roe for organising this informative presentation.