South West Swim

We only have ONE evening open water session left for 2026!
This Thursday is the last chance to grab an evening open water coaching session with us at Cotswold Water Park Hire, lake86.

Our remaining evenings are fully booked for the rest of August, and the lake hours change in September to close at 6pm.

If you would like join us for this session please book the spot online via our website, the link is in the comments to make life easier for you.

We will still be running our daytime and weekend open water sessions until mid September, and beyond this date by request.

WEEKEND WARRIORS

We have some more Channel swimmers at South West Swim!!

I just woke up to check in on Imo and Tilda Meers progress, but whilst I was getting my beauty sleep they’ve already LANDED IN FRANCE at about 4:20am!!

What an amazing swim and an amazing adventure. So happy for you both and all the hard work, patience and waiting paid off.

Amazing, and well done to Rowie Meers for great support.

Hopefully more later today when I’m properly awake, if we get some pics to share. Very proud of you both.

Now enjoy some rest, recovery and celebrations.



SwimTayka

Anybody else checking?

Just me? Ok.

So close

WEEKEND WARRIORS

As many of us start thinking about sleepy time Imogen & Tilda Meers, and their two SwimTayka team mates, are just over 7 hours into their channel swim. Their ETA is 8 hours left by the stats on the Anastasia tracker, I’ll be checking through the night when I wake up.

Bryan Avery, founder of SwimTayka said they are doing well and have a good tide going for them.

Let’s hope the good weather and tides continue through the night.

If you fancy this challenge in the next year drop me a message or contact Bryan and his team directly (tagged above).

WEEKEND WARRIORS

Big well done to 1-to-1 Codeo Analysis swimmer and friend of SWS Matthew Allen for an amazing grace at Ironman Copenhagen, finishing in 16th AG place.

A storming run took Matt from 37th to 16th in a total time of 10hours 4 minutes.

Well done Matt, enjoy the recovery and hope to see you soon.
Thank you to Marianne Day for the pic, top supporter marks for you too 🙂. See you in squad.

WEEKEND WARRIORS UPDATE
1. The ladies have started their channel relay. You can track their boat ‘Anastasia’ via my last post (I can’t add the link here without meta trying to sell me something!)

2. Matt is still going well at IM Copenhagen, now on the run with an estimated finish time of around 5:10pm (may be a time difference). Marianne Day is out there to support.

3. Sadly it was not Jodi’s day on the course and she retired after lap 1 of the bike. I know she’s disappointed but a HUGE well done for getting to the start line and beyond for this race in your first season back.

We will keep you posted with updates, it’s going to be a long night in the channel.

WEEKEND WARRIORS
David Gulliver!
I’ll just leave this here, so well deserved. There are no more words needed.

WEEKEND WARRIORS
Great swims from squad swimmer Jodi at Ironman 70.3 Duisburg, exiting the water in 13th AG position. She is currently out on the bike just coming to the 48km marker.Go Jodi!

1-to-1 swimmer and friend of SWS Matt has also produced a great effort at Ironman Copenhagen, with a 1:10 swim. Matt’s now out on the bike and is at the 72km marker.
Go Matt!!

Track them both on the Ironman app

Thanks Marianne Day for the picture.