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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'>Hi Team,<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I feel like I actually did some swimming this week!! A lovely swim, I’m sure you’ll all agree. I just wish I’d kept my wetsuit on afterwards!! The details were:<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><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Distance travelled: 5.43km</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Total distance travelled: 144.11 km<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Distance travelled since Cricklade: 121.79 km<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Distance remaining to Teddington Lock: 101.39 km<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Distance remaining to Battersea Bridge: 123.49 km<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Distance remaining to </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sea Reach No1 Buoy</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: 212.45 km<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Distance Driven: 3,088.4 km<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Map and track etc on the blog: <a href="http://www.swimthethames.com">http://www.swimthethames.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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><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'> ossrats-bounces@earth.li [mailto:ossrats-bounces@earth.li] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Wellingham<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 July 2012 21:03<br><b>To:</b> ossoxon@earth.li; ossrats@earth.li<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSS RATS] OSS Swim the Thames #31 - Gatehampton (Almost) to Pangbourne- 10:00am Sunday 29 July<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Greetings Sun worshippers - Summer is here at last. Hopeful it will hold out to the weekend. Currently, (pun intended) we have the best of both worlds - warm weather with lots of water making progress easy - as long as you're going downstream. Fortunately that's just what we're doing.<br><br>This weekend we will swimming under another of Brunel's Great Western viaduct masterpieces at Gatehampton and continuing down past the Beale Wildlife Park. Might be a potential ice cream stop? (Australian style waterproof money could be handy.) After that we head to the pedestrian inaccessible Whitchurch lock where we will have to walk around and jump back in for a short swim under the second of only two toll bridges on the Thames (Remember the other Toll bridge at Swinford back in September last year?) to jump out at Pangbourne Meadows where we are parked.<br><br>We'll then repair to the Greyhound pub in Whitchurch for lunch.<br><br><b>We'll be meeting at Pangbourne River Meadow Car Park at 10:00am on Sunday 29 July:</b><br><b><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/MCyn">http://goo.gl/maps/MCyn</a></b></span><b><br></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Parking is free on Sundays</span></b><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>We'll Shuttle to Goring and park at the same car park we finished at on the last swim:</span><br><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/T1GO">http://goo.gl/maps/T1GO</a></span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Parking is free here as well, on Sundays</span><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>and walk down to the beach Entry Point that we exited at on the last swim:</span><br><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/8x2q">http://goo.gl/maps/8x2q</a><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>There is no access, pedestrian or otherwise at Whitchurch Lock, so we'll swim to the lock walk around, get in and swim under Whitchurch Toll bridge and exit in Pangbourne River meadow here:</span><br><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/4scg">http://goo.gl/maps/4scg</a><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>There may be a challenge for walkers as the Thames path leaves the river at Gatehampton and heads for the Chiltern Hills only to rejoin at Whitchurch. The tow path crosses to the other side at Gatehampton via a long defunct ferry. We could consider dropping walkers off on the tow path side on the shuttle up BUT that means peeps will need to arrange for waterproof bags to carry their car keys.<br><br>Jeremy and Sef and the Basking Sunfish of the Thames.<i><br><br><a href="mailto:Oxford@outdoorswimmingsociety.com" target="_blank">Oxford@outdoorswimmingsociety.com</a></i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>OSS swim responsibility statement:</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>By attending you confirm that you are a member of the OSS and have read and accepted the OSS swim responsibility statement:</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/index.php?p=swimming_tips&s=responsibility" target="_blank">http://www.outdoorswimming society.com/index.php?p=swimming_tips&s=responsibili ty</a></span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>All swimmers swim at their own risk.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>