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As always, what a session!
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If you didn’t make the session, where’s your 'what3words' ...

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Jan 20

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As always, what a session! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you didn’t make the session, where’s your 'what3words' favourite swim location? Share below 👇🏻 This week we were joined by Ash Jones, who continued his series of talks on how to swim safely in open water. I was amazed by the work he put into it. I learned so much from it. Thanks Ash!🙏🏻 The theme this week was your favourite swim spot using @what3words the app that the BBC describes as ‘the app that could save your life’. If you’ve not heard of it before, the developers have divided the world into 57 trillion 3m squares and given them a unique combination of 3 words. Handy for letting friends know where you are, but of even more importance for giving the emergency services an exact location of where you are if you don’t know. Some of the word combinations are quite funny as you can see... 'yoga.assumes.fakes' (the pontoon at @salfordwsc ) 🙈 and we had a nice smooth link from Nick with humans.smooth.loved (we also love other @swimsmooth swim types) You can search online here: https://what3words.com/smooth.blend.darker Or head over to the app store or google play to download it https://what3words.com/products/what3words-app/ CONGRATULATIONS to Judy, Simon and Stephen for the sparkly 25th hats! Thank you everyone - we'll see you next week 👋🏻 #what3words #dryswimming #triathlon #openwaterswimming #swimming #fitness #fitfam #fitspo #instaswim #swimsmoothmanchester #swimsmooth #instatri #salfordquays #salford #mediacityuk #manchester #manchesteruk #swimtraining #triathlontraining #swimbikerun #trilife

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What a virtual session we had last night!
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Last night’s theme was motivational word(s) ... adding a ...

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Jan 13

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What a virtual session we had last night! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Last night’s theme was motivational word(s) ... adding a much needed bit of midweek motivation 😁 Our guest swimmer was Ash Jones, Swim England Water Safety and Drowning Prevention Manager. It was a fascinating presentation on how to stay safe and keep others safe in open water. We had Kevin getting his 30th virtual squad hat and Jude getting her 5th Squad hat – congratulations guys! Thank you to everyone for a great session – We’ll look forward to next week! #midweekmotivation #dryswimming #triathlon #openwaterswimming #swimming #fitness #fitfam #fitspo #instaswim #swimsmoothmanchester #swimsmooth #instatri #salfordquays #salford #mediacityuk #manchester #manchesteruk #swimtraining #triathlontraining #swimbikerun #trilife

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Last night we had our first virtual squad of 2021!

Due to various technical hitches, we (coach Lucy) missed the photo from last ...

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Jan 6

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Last night we had our first virtual squad of 2021! Due to various technical hitches, we (coach Lucy) missed the photo from last night (it was a great one too), so instead here’s a round up of each of our lovely virtual squad guests from 2020. Thank you wry much to each of you for joining us, we took so much away from these sessions and they have meant so much 🙏🏻 Seamus Bennett, Ice mile swimmer and founder Felixstowe Swimscapes Stephen Milne, World Champion and Olympic Silver medallist Alec Johnson, from starting to swim in his 40s to Masters World Champion Coach AM, Olympian and Mental performance and Leadership coach Stu Moore, from not training as a child to Double Masters Champion Dr Heather Massey, Cold water expert Darren Ward, former Welsh international, current head goal keeping coach at Sheffield United Coach Lucy Vikki Hubbard, former international high jumper and world canicross competitor Colleen Blair, extreme swimmer Joe Skipper, IM champion Ella Hughes from accidental OW swimmer to Channel swimmer in 3 years Chris Cook, Double Commonwealth Champion and Olympian Bex Rimmington, 2018 Zwift Tri academy member Hannah Miley, Triple Olympian Scott Milne, one of the youngest ever officials at the Paralympic games Coach Lex Paul Newsome and Adam Young from Swim Smooth Coach Caz Mel Hayes, World Age Group Duathlon Champion, Kona Finisher, Coach Kate Offord, BTF NW virtual coach of the year Joana Calado, double Paralympian Susie Rodgers MBE, Paralympic gold medallist Matt Williams, part of the Peak to Pond club (Everest and the English Channel). Steve Evans, extreme and ultra athlete. #dryswimming #triathlon #openwaterswimming #swimming #fitness #fitfam #fitspo #instaswim #swimsmoothmanchester #swimsmooth #instatri #salfordquays #salford #mediacityuk #manchester #manchesteruk #swimtraining #triathlontraining #swimbikerun #trilife

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Well, it’s been an unimaginable and indescribable year! Despite it’s challenges, we’ve focussed on what we can do and here’s our top...

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Dec 31

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Well, it’s been an unimaginable and indescribable year! Despite it’s challenges, we’ve focussed on what we can do and here’s our top 8 (we like thinking differently) based on likes. It’s a top 8+1 as we couldn’t summarise our year and leave the virtual squads off – they’ve been one of the highlights of our year. To the teams at @salfordwsc, @wrightrobinsonleisure, @bannatynequayst and to our swimmers be it open water, pool or virtual. Thank you for making this year! 🥂 1️⃣ A virtual Hi 5 from Bram (our new SM team member) to the HHWC team for getting us up and swimming at HHWC 2️⃣ Coaches Lucy and Caz swimming together as Caz paces Lucy during training for her English Channel Medley relay with @bigrickswimteam 3️⃣ Lucy preparing to dive in! 4️⃣ The announcement that we were back and able to coach at HHWC 5️⃣ No need for a virtual squad selfie – here was our first session back in the pool in 6 months! 6️⃣ A bee-utiful swim with coach Lucy and the squad in the Bee swimwear 7️⃣ Corkscrew turns – our technique post on corkscrew turns 8️⃣ The sun setting on the 2020 ow season with coaches Caz and Lucy ➕1️⃣ Our first virtual squad session (currently on 30) – who’d have thought we’d have been doing these this time last year? #staysafe #hellyhansenwatersportscentre #triathlon #openwaterswimming #swimming #fitness #fitfam #fitspo #instaswim #swimsmoothmanchester #swimsmooth #instatri #salfordquays #salford #mediacityuk #manchester #manchesteruk #swimtraining #triathlontraining #swimbikerun #trilife

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Great @swimsmooth 1-2-1 video analysis and stroke correction session on Saturday with @itsjasonmccartney! Thank you for your energy and hard...

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Dec 21

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Great @swimsmooth 1-2-1 video analysis and stroke correction session on Saturday with @itsjasonmccartney! Thank you for your energy and hard work. We’re looking forward to hearing how 2021 goes 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻Posted @withregram • @itsjasonmccartney Great day yesterday with Lucy from @swimmingmattersuk doing a Swim Smooth video analysis session on my swim stroke!! Really stoked with the session! I was genuinely surprised at my body position in the water. For the most part it actually looked really good! Using the video footage Lucy was able to highlight and show me a couple of key areas for improvement. Then I got back in the pool and practiced some drills to correct them. With a few tweaks I'm confident I'll find the extra speed I'm looking for! Despite it being a challenging year to swim consistently, I've improved so much! Watch out #ironmanUK, I'm coming for ya! #improvement #swimbikerun #triathlete

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It was our 30th Virtual squad session last night and what a way to celebrate and finish off the year with our Festive session!

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Dec 16

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It was our 30th Virtual squad session last night and what a way to celebrate and finish off the year with our Festive session! The session featured @100pointchallenge’s ‘A Christmas Puzzle’ and it was great fun – definitely check it out if you’re looking for a team virtual Christmas challenge! ‘Wine Swimmers’ were the Champions in 28 minutes, closely followed by the ‘Ever Presents’ a minute later at 29 minutes and ‘Zoom at the Inn’ just sneaking under the 40 minute time cut off at 39 minutes! Congratulations to the following swimmers for their virtual hats: 30th to Carolyn, Mick, Nick and Roy. 20th to Dan Thank you to everyone who has made our virtual, pool @wrightrobinsonleisure and open water squads @salfordwsc so great this year! See you for some more squad action in 2021! #100pointchallenge #achristmaspuzzle #dryswimming #triathlon #openwaterswimming #swimming #fitness #fitfam #fitspo #instaswim #swimsmoothmanchester #swimsmooth #instatri #salfordquays #salford #mediacityuk #manchester #manchesteruk #swimtraining #triathlontraining #swimbikerun #trilife

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It was our 29th virtual squad session last night! This week's guest athlete was Ultra and extreme athlete, Steve Evans.

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Dec 9

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It was our 29th virtual squad session last night! This week's guest athlete was Ultra and extreme athlete, Steve Evans. Steve shared with us his sporting background. He played Rugby, and was frequently found on Mountain Bike Trials. Then around his 30s he discovered that he couldn't get away with intermittent exercise anymore and joined a running club. They got him into triathlon. By the end of his first season, he'd completed an iron distance event! He shared with us his journey towards ultra and extreme events and his motivation for selecting events. Interestingly he said part of his motivation is that he select events that will challenge his weaknesses! We talked through some of his events so far: Alpe D Huez triathlon Challenge Barcelona (iron distance ) Ironman wales three times triathlon x Celtman ( Blue Shirt finisher i.e. the harder route) the Double Brutal ( double Ironman, as if the Brutal tri isn't hard enough already. ) The Heb ( multi day adventure race across the Hebridien chain ) Motivational books: Hell and Highwater by Sean Conway and Eat and run by Scott Jurek He also recommended "Ar Gefn y Ddraig Riding The Dragon" It's in Welsh (with English subtitles) and it's about his next challenge - The Dragon's back. It's available on Amazon Prime and there are a few other documentaries on there about it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Congratulations to Jean and Joanna for their 25th virtual squad session hats! Thank you to everyone for making it a great session! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #dryswimming #triathlon #openwaterswimming #swimming #fitness #fitfam #fitspo #instaswim #swimsmoothmanchester #swimsmooth #instatri #salfordquays #salford #mediacityuk #manchester #manchesteruk #swimtraining #triathlontraining #swimbikerun #trilife

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Looking for a Christmas gift for the open water swimmer or watersports fan in your life. Check this out from @salfordwsc 👇🏻Posted ...

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Dec 6

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Looking for a Christmas gift for the open water swimmer or watersports fan in your life. Check this out from @salfordwsc 👇🏻Posted @withregram • @salfordwsc Christmas is here, and now is the time to treat our loved ones to something they will love! We’ve decided that 2021 is going to be the year to try something new, so why not purchase one of our gift vouchers to gift this Christmas! https://salfordwatersports.com/about-us/gift-vouchers/ #Gift #Christmas #Watersports #GiftIdea #ChristmasGifts #Fun #2021 #Salford #Manchester #England #UK #TrySomethingNew #OpenWaterSwimming #Wakeboarding #Sailing #Windsurfing #SUP #Kayak