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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ll be there on Good Friday and will do as many of the swims as I can!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>CD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> ossoxon-bounces@earth.li [mailto:ossoxon-bounces@earth.li] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Wellingham<br><b>Sent:</b> 04 April 2011 23:12<br><b>To:</b> ossoxon@earth.li; ossrats@earth.li<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSS Oxon] Swim the Thames<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A few of us have decided we want to swim the length of the Thames during the course of the next year or three.</span></i><br><br><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We will be doing this in small sections, in sequence, using Mike Worthington’s book – ‘I Love the Thames’ – as our guide, starting at the Source of the Thames and working our way down to Teddington, a distance of around 150 miles. We expect to swim on a Saturday or Sunday, probably every other week or so. This is <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>not</span></strong> an endurance test but more a way to </span></i><br><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>experience the complete Thames and hopefully add to our repertoire of swimming locations that we can come back to in the future. To start with we will be aiming for a swim of a mile or two in the morning or afternoon but as the weather warms up, and we get the measure of our capabilities, we can adjust the distance and maybe do some full days combined with a picnic lunch. Later in the summer, we may program weekend swims, camping overnight, and full moon swims, to make the journey as enjoyable and diverse as possible.</span></i><br><br><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The first section of the Thames is a walk of around 12 miles from The Source near Kemble in Gloucestershire to Cricklade. We will do this on Easter Friday – 22 April - with a picnic lunch. The next section we expect to be more of a wade than a swim which we will tackle the following May bank holiday weekend, avoiding the Wedding Friday to cater for Royalists! We will gauge the distance following a recce at the end of our initial walk.</span></i><br><br><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It may be difficult to make all the swims / walks so you are more than welcome to join us for any sections that take your fancy or fit your schedule, and if you want to catch up on sections missing from your collection we hope to record our experiences to provide some hints so you could do them independently. </span></i><br><br><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We will make up the schedule and logistics as we go along and try to set dates a month or two in advance and post them on the OSS sites as per normal swims.</span></i><br><br><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In order not to overload the e-mail network, we will set up a separate group list for those interested in taking part, or following progress, and also a Facebook group to post stories and pictures on. We will also post swim alerts, as usual, to the OSS Oxon list and to Facebook. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Let us know if you think you would like to join us - the more, the merrier - along the beautiful Thames.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Usual OSS terms and conditions apply.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></div><p class=avgcert>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 10.0.1209 / Virus Database: 1500/3549 - Release Date: 04/04/11<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>