20/7/2010 Open Water Hero! We have spent much time talking about our diddy swimmers so for a change today we're going to publicise some of the efforts of one of our senior swimmers. Andy "Mackaniac" Mackay came in 2nd in the 40-49 age category at the ASA Open water midlands championships at market Bosworth. He came in with a time of 22 mins 52 seconds for the 1500m race. He deserved the success because he spent the whole of Saturday trying to paint a blue line on the bottom of the lake. So well played to the big man. Maybe this could be used as a catalyst to get a team down there next year? Open water swimming is quite different to being in a pool, its about 6 degrees colder and there arent any turns, (unless you come up to a flock of geese). So until you have tried it you'll never know how talented you may be at it! The triathlon club run a session there which can be joined by none members every Thursday evening. 14/7/2010 JCC Summer Stoppage Our sessions at JCC will be closed for the first week of the school holidays, sessions effected are: Saturday 17th July, Monday 19th July, Wednesday 21st July and Saturday 24th July. JCC restarts on July 26th and will continue uninhibited till the break in August.
25/6/2010
Special Friday Night Sessions - End of June Update..
Since last month (at 7.00 pm to 8.30pm Friday nights at HLC) we have been offering some extra different sessions. We started with swim challenge awards.
| WATERPOLO We're part way through a
waterpolo course aimed at 10-13 year olds (inclusive). We want both
boys and girls to come and have a go. Its not too late if you miss the
first weeks either. We have decided to add a 7th week after some rescheduling. We were previously closed on the 23rd July but to allow a 4th week of syncro we have opened it up. |
| SYNCHRO SWIMMING Our first ever sessions in Syncro Swimming will start on July 2nd. We are running for 4 weeks with two per week sessions at 7:00-7:45 and 7:45-8:30. We're looking for girls (goes without saying) at ages of 14 and under, although they need to be main pool swimmers. Costs are £10 for the whole 4 week block at 45 minutes per session per week. |
After the summer break we will plan to resume the "award" sessions that we held in the first 4 weeks of the scheme. We will be offering Challenge One; Challenge Two; Bronze Challenge; Silver Challenge and Gold Challenge. Challenge One and Two are suitable for swimmers in the Flume Pool and the Bronze, Silver and Gold Challenge awards are suitable for main Pool swimmers. You can either start at Challenge One or Bronze Challenge. if you have done one or more of the cahllenge awards you can start at the next appropriate level.
If you want to know more or sign up please send an e-mail to hinckleyhornets@hotmail.com.
6/4/2010
Museum Exhibit
As you all know by now our club is celebrating our 100th birthday this year. As part of the celebrations our centenary team have worked incredibly hard to put a museum exhibit together. It is a vibrant and interesting history of the club from its inception to the modern day. Click here to visit the museums website. See the map below for the location of the museum.
The museum is open:
10am-4pm on Saturdays
2pm-5pm Sundays.