Left to Right Back Row

Michelle Hardy, Peter Ingham, Rachel Smith, Liz Cain, Wendy Figures, Roy Millican, Gary Ridgeway

Front Row

Keith Godbehere, Eric Millican

Following the last BLDSA event at Lynn Regis, on 30^th September, I wandered to meet some dear friends for a final, final swim of the season – past, present and current members of the BLDSA.

I met Eric Millican, Roy Millican, Peter Ingham and Keith Godbehere at one of my very first outdoor swims and we have been friends ever since.  Every week during the season, they have a catch up and talk about past swims and discuss and analyse swims that Wendy Figures and I have completed during the current season.  Eric and Roy are like living computers and can recall the positions and times when they swam the same events and Wendy tries to beat Eric every time she competes.

Eric and Roy have crewed for and assisted many BLDSA members – most notably Jean Wilkin-Oxley (Channel Swimmer 1972 14 hrs 50 mins), Bob Fletcher (Channel Swimmer 1969 10 hrs 24 mins), Rachel Goldburn (Channel Swimmer 1992 11 hrs 54 mins). Rachel also holds the Record for the fastest Lady to swim Loch Ness (in 1990 9 hrs 25 mins).  They were both part of the Doncaster Lifeguards Veterans Relay in 1991 with Eric’s stint finishing 200 metres from the beach before being completed by fellow team member Lyn Robinson.

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Our first event of the 2018 season!!!

What an absolutely cracking day. Beautiful summer weather made for water temperatures ranging from 16.7 deg to 19 deg. All the swimmers taking part had a fantastic swim in the lovely sun baked lake.

A big thank you to all new and existing members for turning up and making a brilliant event.

Thank you to Patrick Smith for organising the event and all the volunteers who helped out.

We’re all looking forward to the next event at Wykeham Lake next week.

Thanks again to all those who supported this event after the troubles we encountered last year, it just goes to show that despite water problems last year – it was just bad luck – this venue provides a superb swim and with weather like today the BLDSA friendly atmosphere shone through!

Here is the annual reminder, for any new members joining the BLDSA from now onward for the remainder of 2017, membership for 2018 will be added as a Bonus.

So it is now time to join – to take part in the Lynn Regis events in 2017 and the whole calendar of events for 2018……

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