People will be needed throughout the day & night to make teas & hot drinks, count lengths, chat to the swimmers & offer them support and help when they’re out the pool between their miles and anything else the organisers need a hand with. Lots of people have kindly said they’ll be happy to come along and offer some time, but we need more.

If you can donate just a little bit of time, please do get in touch either with us here via email, with Russell (Russell.Atkins@guildford.gov.uk) at the Lido, or Lesley Zimmerman the fabulous woman behind the 2Swim4Life event (lesleyzimmerman@2swim4life.co.uk).

The event has been getting loads of coverage in the swimming community both here and abroad, all fantastic publicity for the Lido right at the start of the season.

2Swim4Life
Each competitor is going to attempt to swim 1 mile on the hour, every hour, for 24 consecutive hours!  Yep, they are going to be swimming through the night!  The event was originally founded by Stewart Rush in 2008 as a charity fundraising event to raise money for Action Duchenne which exclusively funds research for a cure and promotes campaigns for better medical care for Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy. 

The Guildford Lido 2Swim4Life’11 event will be in aid of Help for Heroes and is being organised by Lesley Zimmerman with lots of support from local swimmers and supporters as well as those coming in from further afield. The event is expected to attract swimmers from around the country.   Burning between 8000 and 11500 calories each, equivalent to 15 roast dinners hence sustaining food intake and keeping it down is going to be a further essential challenge!

Details are being finalised right now and we will post more information here over the coming weeks. In the meantime, if this is something that you would like to be involved with, either swimming or supporting the swimmers – they’ll need lots of it – please get in touch with us now. 

Come along and support us. It should be a great day!

There’ll be more to come soon, including an account of how the increasing interest and resurgence in the popularity of outdoor swimming is being embraced by Surrey swimmers as over 70 people attended the Big River Jump in the Wey on July 11th in support of the Europe-wide Big Jump campaign to raise awareness of river and water quality across Europe. The event brought together many Lido swimmers, and newly recruited FOGLs in a show of somewhat spontaneous solidarity.  It was quite a sight!

“ I have been using the Lido since the beginning of May to train for the British Gas Swim last weekend and it was a godsend as I needed the extra distance and outdoors, having only been used to an indoor and 25m pool”. 

Do get in touch, post a comment here or email us direct, all news is very welcome!

http://www.greatswim.org/Events/British-Gas-Great-East-Swim/Default.aspx

There’s lots to see and do and these events are for swimmers of all abilities, not just good ones!

More details can be found on the newly revamped official Lido website

http://www.guildfordspectrum.co.uk/content/view/449/325/

See you there!

http://www.greatswim.org/

Taking an idea posted on the Outdoor Swimming Society facebook page to swim outdoors every day through the month of June, if anyone fancies taking up the challenge it would be fun to collate and publish here or in the newsletter people’s June Challenge diaries.  Clearly we’d like to see the Lido feature high amongst people’s outdoor swimming venues in their quest to meet the challenge, but anywhere outdoors counts.

So if you think you’re up to committing yourself to an outdoor swim every day of June, be it in river, lake, sea or of course Lido, get recording your swims from Tuesday next week and send them to us at the end of the month. 

If you’re looking for outdoor swimming spots away from the Lido, try visiting the Outdoor Swimming Society’s website or Facebook pages.