On Saturday, our masters Matthew Rafiq-Craske and Hilary Coulson took on London’s most iconic swim event, the Dock2Dock event at London’s Royal Docks. Swimming alongside the London City Airport, this years event was celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Both swimming the 5K Half Marathon, Matt improved his podium place of last year by finishing in...

On Sunday 27th July our Masters swimmer Hilary Coulson, joined over 250 masters from across the Country to attend the Swim England Open Water National Masters Championship, held at Rother Valley County Park near Sheffield. Competing in the 5K event for the first time at Nationals, Hilary swam 11 minutes quicker than her 2023 swim...

A team of 4 HHSC masters attended the East Region Open Water event at Whitlingham Country Park, Norwich. The results are broken out for each of the 6 Counties competing and then for the overall East Region. Competing at his first 5k event, Oliver Brawn had an outstanding swim at 1hr 29 mins taking a...

Jo Lea-Pearce was the sole HHSC Master swimmer attending the weekends Distance Meet at Barnet Copthall. Swimming for National qualification times, Jojo (45-49 age group) won Golds in both the 200 Back and 400 IM, with Silvers in the 100 Back and 400 Freestyle. A great result JoJo, Congratulations.

Competing on Sunday 29th June, Hannah Smee was the first female to finish the challenging 21k course. The event alternated between 9 swims (250-800m) and 10 runs (300-6000m), lake swimming in the clothes you run in!  Finishing in an impressive 2hr 43 and taking top spot for the women. Congratulations Hannah!

The small team of 5 Masters attended the British Nationals at the London Olympic Aquatic Centre over the weekend. Qualification to swim at Nationals is tough and the competition over the weekend was tougher with many World, European and British records being set. Swimming with the best of the UK’s swimmers our small team secured...

On Sunday 1st June our Masters took part in the Herts Masters County meet at the Hemel Hempstead pool. 17 of our masters swimmers were competing against 12 clubs from around Hertfordshire. Every swim from our small team contributed to the fantastic result, finishing in an impressive 2nd place just 36 points behind winners STAM, 267...

Massive CONGRATULATIONS to our three Masters swimmers who took on the 2025 London Marathon on Sunday 27th April. Due to the heat and humidity Paige Wilding, Shane Coulson and Isabella Sherwani-Keeling had to work extra hard for the 26 mile event but, all three finished and are part of the 1% of the worlds population...