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The Exmouth Swimming and Life Saving Society Open Water team went on a training camp in the Lake District last week. The camp coincided with the British Long Distance Swimming Association’s 2-way Windermere Championship which is an ultra distance 21 mile race through the night. Jamie Page completed the race in 11hours 57minutes and was 3rd in the men’s race. He started the swim at 9 O’clock on Saturday 13th and finished just before 8.30 on Sunday morning having fought the cold and fatigue through the night to conquer the longest Lake in England both ways in one swim.
A large team of swimmers and supporters travelled with Jamie to support him in his swim and attempt swims of there own in the following week. On Tuesday Olly White who has swam the English Channel and 2-way Windermere and is due to swim the Irish Channel with a celebrity team including Richard Branson next month conquered Ulswater in a time of 2hours 58minutes which was half an hour quicker than he’s swum the 7mile lake before. He was joined on the day by Ross Szender who completed his longest ever swim in 3hours 6minutes and Adam Tapp who swam the lake in 3hours 15minutes.
The following day the team returned to Ulswater for Tara Dudley, who swam 2-way Winderemere last year and like Jamie is training to swim the English Channel in 2012, to complete a 14 mile 2-way swim of the lake in a time of 8 hours and 5 minutes with lots of support from the rest of the team who had the day off.
The last full day of the training camp was on Thursday and five of the team swam the length of Coniston Water which is 5.25 miles long. Adam, Jamie, and Olly swam the lake as another training swim whilst Gemma Franks and Christa Page swam their first lake of the week. Gemma has swum the lakes before and Christa was swimming her first length of a lake and completed the swim in an impressive time of 2hours and 32minutes.
The team swam over 80miles between them over the week of their swims and would like to thank open water coach Alan Franks, open water secretary Barry Westaway and all of their supporters, rowers, and kayakers for their help and support which made the swims possible. |
