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Alan Luckhurst gives us a distilled account of proceedings.  

What a race we had on Saturday in the “Hunter-Coddington dash” over 110 yards. 

With water measuring 4.4 Celsius, Jeremy Hunter accurately described this race as" harder than the Christmas Day race". But perhaps, hardest of all, was for Mike Barron who convincingly led race one from the start.

Serpentine SC has many facets, and even more volunteers who help with the running of the club. 

On Saturday, on behalf of the club, Jeremy, Robin and Ingrid awarded a trophy, not for swimming at the Serpentine, but for writing about it. Unaccustomed as John Tierney is to writing about himself, he's always part of the story.  

On 22 February 2020, Chris Hatcher won the first race of the Emmi Hunte Cup series, a race consisting of three consecutive handicapped races. Every year, the winner of the first race of the Emmi Hunte Cup series, formerly Telegraph Cup series, becomes the Wendy of the club. And what, pray you, does a Wendy do?

A wonderful birthday treat for the ever-young Katherine Cselko who won this year's handicap race for the Peter Pan Trophy. 

Welcome to Serpentine Swimming Club.

The start list for the race is published below. Only the pre-qualified swimmers named on the list will be allowed to race. (Smartphone users will, ironically, need to click on the blue headline to view the list)

As always, the race will start at 9 am sharp. If you wish to view the race, please try and arrive by 08:30 as, judging by recent years, the bankside tends to be full of spectators.

Thank you

It's a long and arduous season if you want to be recognised as the best. And, the award for the most combative swimmer of the club year was given to the popular Cedric Guyot.

Congratulations on your consistency John.