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Saturday 12 September would have seen the swimming club plodding and gasping and the running club splashing and gurgling in the eagerly anticipated (for some) Serpentine Biathlon.  The run and swim event was introduced in 1983 to develop relations between the Serpentine Swimming Club and the recently established, new kids on the block, Serpentine Running Club.

Since 2017 the winner of the team event has been presented with the Jan Farmer Shield.  Jan is a long term member of both the swimming and running club.

Congratulations to the young Felicity Challinor, a Serpentine club member who recently completed her third English Channel relay to France.

Many members are greatly missing our regular Saturday races in the Serpentine so the opportunity has been taken to briefly remind us all of what we have been missing.  The race on 5 September would have been swum over 440 yards for the Dusty Rhodes bowl, with prizes presented by Tony and Jane Schiemann.

Dusty swam with the club from the early 1960s until the late 1980s.  A submariner during WW2, Dusty worked as a stevedore at Brentford docks until their closure in 1972.

More race updates to follow.

Congratulations to the impressive Stu Bowman, who today 14 August 2020, completed his third solo swim of the English Channel.

This swim was undoubtedly his fastest ever. Stu reached France in 11 hours and 58 minutes, which was five and a half hours faster than his solo swim two years ago.

Stu first swam to France in 2014, and also in 2018, but 2020 really was Stupendous when he swam a time befitting an elite swimmer. 

Congratulations to Nick Adams who successfully swam solo to France in twelve hours and four minutes on Friday 17 July 2020.