Thames Swimmers,
An epic half century, 50th swim, starting with a swim under 14
lanes of the M25, on Saturday and under the M3 on Sunday.
Practice your butterfly - the M25 trolls will need a lot of
appeasement. We are firmly within the bounds of London now, or
at least in my rural head we are, and not far from our goal of
the Teddington Obelisk. (And we are still managing to camp
out.)
CAMPING SATURDAY 20th JULY 2013
This weekend we have a Saturday #50 and a Sunday #51 swim, with a
camping option on the night of Saturday 20 July at Runnymede in a
Thames side garden, courtesy of http://campinmygarden.com/
at £20 per tent single occupancy or £30 per tent double occupancy.
We used this two weeks ago and were made very welcome by Cormac.
Bring food / drink to cook on B-B-Q and prepare to invade any
riverside parties from the water under the cover of darkness.
Please let me know if you would like to camp ASAP, so I can
firm up the booking.
Swim #50
SATURDAY 20 JULY 2013 1:00pm Runnymede Bell Weir Lock to
Staines Penton Hook Lock
We'll meet here on Sat20Juk13 at 1:00pm, in
the Runnymede Pleasure grounds car park:
http://goo.gl/maps/B6mbt
(Parking is £4.50
/ 3 hours or
£6.00 all day.)
We'll
optionally shuttle
a couple of
cars down to a
small car park
at Egham
Hythe, near
the finish but
on the wrong
side of the
river. (But
we can swim
across,
right?)
here:
http://goo.gl/maps/gurtx
(Small
car park but
free.)
Get changed, stroll down to Bell Weir Lock and jump in and
swim down to Penton Hook Lock, stopping for Elevenses on the way
down. This
is swim 68
in Michael
Worthington's
'I
♥ the Thames'' and
is about 4.5k.
Swim #51SUNDAY
21st JULY 2013 10:00am Staines Penton Hook Lock to Chertsey
Lock
We'll meet here on Sun21Jul13 at 10:00am, in Chertsey Meads
car park, Mead Lane here:
http://goo.gl/maps/6kKYh
(Free car park)
This is on the wrong side of the river so we'll have to swim over
to the other side and walk up to Penton Hook Lock, passing
Chertsey Lock, jump in and swim back down again.
This
is swim 69 in
Michael
Worthington's
'I
♥ the Thames'' and
is about 3.1k, so
we might
extend it
just past
Chertsey Lock
to the car
park.
We'll
finish off at
The
Jolly Gardners
again, at Old
Windsor, where
we had an
excellent
roast last
time:
Sef
and Jeremy
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