Coniston Vets

Overview

A beautiful swim in a beautiful lake. The Vets swim starts near the  Brown Howe car park and you swim down to finish on the beach just before the Bluebird Café. With the presentation taking place on the beach once all the swimmers have finished.

If you want, you can also enter to swim the full length of the lake (5.25m) the following day.

Kayak Support

Swimmers must have a kayak escorting them for this event, you need to bring your own, they must be experienced in rough water conditions and ideally should have a BCU 2 star award.

Register

*Prerequisites: You must be over 45 on the day of the swim to enter as a Vet.

The Open event

The course goes from Brown Howe down to the beach just in front of the Bluebird Café, for a 3.85m swim.

The swimmers will start in two waves to allow swimmers to finish as close to each other as possible.

This swim is for non members only and allows non traditional swimming costumes including wetsuits.

The Championship event

The course goes from Brown Howe down to the beach just in front of the Bluebird Café, for a 3.85m swim.

The swimmers will start in two waves to allow swimmers to finish as close to each other as possible.

This swim is for BLDSA members only (Vets – 45+ on the day of the swim) and is for skins swimmers only.

Timings

9am registration; 10am briefing; 11:30am swim start

The presentation will be on the beach as soon as possible after the last swimmer has finished.

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For more information for 2020 please contact:

Michelle Hardy
Email: swimmermichelle8@gmail.com