Swimming Category

Our Roydon open water swim facility was the venue for the 1st Inter-Club Aquathlon on Saturday 22nd August, and with athletes from RG Active, Bishops Stortford Tri Club and the Met Police Tri Club it was hoped we would have a great event.

Hello Everyone,
I have just received a number of emails from some of you about the announcement from Humanrace about this weekend’s King Sturge triathlon, Timex Women’s Only triathlon and the Steelman triathlon races all being held at Eton this weekend.
I understand the organiser’s reason for this, the rules do state that water temperature over 22 [...]

Good afternoon everyone,
If you ever needed an excuse to go abroad and train, then this summer would give you that excuse. The weather has been miserable and although we are hardened to it, it is started to get test my motivation to the max! 

Above: A typical summer’s day in the UK this year! 
Last night a [...]

Hello Everyone, I hope everyone is enjoying the odd bits of good weather and working on those tan lines!
 
I have been training hard and my tan lines are coming along quite nicely, I have been lucky enough to get out on the bike during the week when the sun has been shining.
If anyone of you have [...]

Well the Blenheim triathlon is upon us all once again, I have seen numerous clients over the past few weeks all looking for that one last swim session before the big day!

The race has particular significance to me so it has been on my calendar for a while (but that is a very different story), but for [...]

Hello everyone, 

One of the things we do a lot of through the summer is hold Open water swim training sessions.
Open water swimming is one of the things that people coming into the sport of triathlon have little or no experience of doing.
Swimming in open water can be a very scary and  daunting for people so [...]

Hello everyone,  
I am sorry that I have not been on here for a while, I will be back on again regularly from now on so don’t worry!
I have been sorting out all the open water swimming and with the weather being so miserable have been keeping a close eye on the water temperatures.
Anyway, things are [...]

Hello everyone, 
I hope everyone is well?
I just wanted to let everyone about the Open water swimming that will be starting in the first week of May at both of our venues. 
 
Our newest venue is in South West London and although you won’t see it on the RG Active website yet, keep your eyes peeled as [...]

Hello everyone,
 Had ths email from Bob, one of RG Active’s clients. 
We met Bob initially one tuesday night at one of our open water swim sessions.
I will let Bob tell you rest in his words, he sent this lovely testamonial through and I thought it would be nice to share it with everyone.
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