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Summer Holidays July 27, 2010

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Tuesday 27th July/Friday 30th July Normal 3/6/10/13 July No Swimming
NO Swimming on Sundays throughout August
Holiday times apply for the rest of August:

1st Session: Normal times
2nd Session: 6.45 – 7.30 Tues.
7.15 – 8.00 Fri
3rd Session 7.30 – 8.30 Tues
8.00 – 9.00 Fri

September Charity Swim July 25, 2010

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At the end of September, when you have recovered from the summer holidays and got your stamina back again, we will be attempting a charity swim. The aim of this is to raise money for the RNLI and the Juli Spendley Foundation (Elivia’s Mum in second session).

The challenge will be to swim the equivalent of Poole to Cherbourg (62NM or 115Km) which equates to 4,600 lengths of the pool.

All sessions will take part and swim as far as they can. Rest will be allowed and it is the total number of lengths swum at the end of the evening that will count. Parents are more than welcome to join the children (if you can keep up!).

We are considering charging a fixed fee rather than sponsorship forms and Anne and I will finalise this over the summer and let you know. Keep an eye on the web site for more details.

Well done to all throughout the year, have a great summer break and come back refreshed, stronger and raring to go.

Sprint League times updated July 18, 2010

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The updated sprint league times are now available here. These include all times up to an including the IOW gala. We are still missing times from some children and will be aiming to collect these prior to the summer break.
NOTE: When prompted, enter the username “ringwood”; the password is the same one you use to access the Members Only area.

We will also be introducing a 25m fly league for the younger swimmers.

Regarding awards, I will be defining target improvements for every division in each league to challenge the children to improve. The most improved against their target every month will get a certificate and we are still formulating the overall awards to give at the end of the year. These targets will be defined over the summer and measurements will start in Sept.

Seals win Cherriman Trophy July 12, 2010

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Well done to all swimmers who braved the very hot weather and even hotter centre for the Cherriman trophy on the 10th July. At the first points tally after 20 races we were lying in second place. After 30 races we were 1 point ahead of Southamnpton, however by the final tally we were ahead by 26 points!

All swimmers swam superbly with some excellent PB’s and a number of individuals / teams coming in just the right side of the cut off times. The boys open relay team (order re-arranged by Jamie to be faster, with a threat from Anne if they were too quick) won their race by a good few metres and 11 hundreths inside the time! Unfortunately, some swam too quickly but obtained PB’ and as you all know we do not worry about speeding tickets if they PB.

Well done to all for a deserved victory and keep this up.

Sprint League Update July 5, 2010

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I am still awaiting the times from the 50m swims the other week and will update the leagues when I receive these (hopefully this week).

We aim to have all times in by the summer and will start the league and measurments of improvement in earnest in Sept when everyone returns fresh and ready to go.

Regarding rewards, we have been reviewing how this should work to ensure that it is fair to everyone. We will therefore not be providing an award for each division winner every month as this provides no incentive to move up to the next division. Instead we are looking at define target improvements (as a percentage) for each stroke split into time bands (as the younger swimmers are likely to improve quicker than those in Division 1). There will then be an award to those who improve the most within their bands.

If anyone has any suggestions for rewards then please add a comment to this post or see me on a Fri or Sun to discuss.

Back and Breast 50m time trials June 18, 2010

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We will be conducting back crawl and breast stroke 50m timings next Friday, 25th June to complete all 50m times to go with the fly and free we have already taken. Could all all session 1 (Lanes 1-3) and session 2 swimmers arrive at 19:00 and sit along the far wall in your normal places.

Sprint League Times June 16, 2010

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The first set of sprint league times are now available here.
NOTE: When prompted, enter the username “ringwood”; the password is the same one you use to access the Members Only area.

We will be collecting times of those with defaults only at present such that we can have a full set of latest times from everyone before we start measuring improvements.

Sprint League June 7, 2010

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We are starting a sprint league to boost competition amongst the swimmers whilst also increasing their speed which will help us at galas. Although we are holding our own against the bigger clubs we feel it is time that we showed them what we can achieve.

The league will consist of 5 divisions within each stroke and an overall league consisting of a cumulative time for all strokes. The top division will be timed on 100m and all other divisions 50m. Times will only be recorded on Sunday’s with some times taken during normal training on a Tuesday night and at gala’s. We will not be able to time every swimmer every week and therefore requests will be taken to record times on a first come first timed basis. This will occur at the beginning of the Sunday session if we believe that there is likely to be an improvement. We will endeavour to ensure that we time as many as possible within every month. You will only be allowed one recorded time per stroke per month.

There will be prizes within each league and we are currently still planning how this aspect will operate. Please monitor the notice board and web site for updates relating to the prizes that will be available. Additionally there will be monthly certificates for the most improved swimmer within each stroke in terms of times.

Swimmers will move up (and down) the divisions as their times improve and as swimmers move up those at the bottom of the next division will automatically drop down to the previous division. The results will be posted on the notice board and web site at the end of every month.

Due to the current recorded times and the fact that we don’t have 50m times for a number of swimmers we have assigned a default time to these swimmers and their positions within the division will initially start in alphabetical order.

We aim to start this is June and are in the final stages of recording the starting times for all members. If you have any questions then please see Mike (Fri first session or Sun).

We also need a name for each league (5 in total) and are looking for suggestions from the children. Please hand your ideas into Mike or any other teaching member and we will announce the results at the end of June.

Easter Training Times March 30, 2010

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No swimming on Good Friday or Easter Sunday, otherwise:

Tuesdays: 6th and 13th April
1st Session 6.00 – 6.45
2nd Session 6.45 – 7.30
3rd Session 7.30 – 8.30

Fridays: 9th and 16th April
1st Session 6.30 – 7.15
2nd Session 7.15 – 8.00
3rd Session 8.00 – 9.00

Sundays 11th and 18th April as normal

Wey Junior B Gala/Walton on Thames March 20, 2010

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Meet at Ringwood 3.30pm.
Coach leaves at 3.45pm prompt!