Congratulations to all our swimmers who took part in the clubs Middle Distance Club Champs on Sunday. With the help of a team of volunteers the meet was a great success with many swimmers taking on a new challenge of distance events. There were so many great swims, now the swimmers have had a taste...
On Sunday 9th November a small team of HHSC masters joined the Hertfordshire team, at the Swim England East Region Inter Counties Masters Championships in Biggleswade. Competing against teams from Bedfordshire, Essex, Norfolk and Cambridge, the event was a huge success with the Hertfordshire team winning for the time since 2011. Congratulations to all those...
Our Masters swimmers put on an outstanding display at the Masters British National Short Course Championships in Sheffield this weekend, returning home with an impressive haul of medals, Age Group personal bests, and 13 new club records. The team spirit was electric throughout the meet, with the ladies leading the team from across the age...
With a team of Volunteers from HHSC, on Saturday 18th October we hosted the HHSC Sprint Festival and Skins event. Consisting of two sessions, we were delighted to see 34 of our swimmers competing throughout the afternoon and evening against tough competition from Bushey, Chesham, Hatfield, Hillingdon, Hitchin, Ware and Watford. There were so many...
Last week, Masters swimmer JoJo Lee took on her longest swim at the annual Kalkan Coastal Community, 6k Charity swim. Starting at Lures in Kalamar the swimmers headed out and around Kalamar Bay, into Firnaz Bay, and back to Lures before continuing on to Kalkan Public Beach. Jojo completed the swim in an impressive 1hr...
On Sunday 5th October, Masters swimmer Ellie O’keeffe took part in the Barcelona Ironman event. The event starts with a 3.86 km Open water swim in the bay, followed by a 180 km bike course and finishing with a Marathon run of 42.2 km. Ellie, competing in the 25-29 Age group, finished the swim in...
On Saturday 4th October, Masters swimmer Dom Kelly competed in the Otillo Cannes France, Swimrun event. A challenging course that took the athletes on a grand tour through and around the beautiful City of Cannes. They had to complete a total race distance of 13.4 km combining 10,350 km of trail running and 3,050 km...
Recently published WORLD Aquatics Masters results, show our Masters relay teams securing 4 top 10 placings in the WORLD! The men’s team of Mark Ayres, Dave Pirrie, Mark Strakosch and Dan Capozzi, competing in the 240-279 year age group took 3 top 10 placings. The Long Course 4 x200 Freestyle team secured 6th place...
On Sunday morning Hilary Coulson and Edwige Fortier competed in ‘The One on the lake’ 3K Open Water race, at the Olympic Rowing venue, Dorney Lake, Windsor. Both swimmers set new Age Group PBs, taking 1st and 2nd in the 50+ Wetsuit category.
Coach and Masters swimmer Matt Rafiq-Craske took on the massive endurance event of cycling the 128 mile cycle route from Whitehaven to Sunderland. Not only did Matt complete the challenge but he did it in just 10 hours! Cycling across the Pennines, Matt said ‘the main hills came after 20 and 60 miles, with 7000...
