A Gala time at the Tooting Races

Tooting’s annual invitation Gala for the Heron Cup took place on Sunday and again proved to be fun, slightly chaotic, super friendly… and cold!

Sebastian gets ready to start the gala for Brockwell Lido Swimmers

Annie gets ready to go for Brockwell Lido Swimmers

After a bit of swapping around, we managed to put a team together including swimmers Sebastian, James, Annie, Michael, Tim, Yago and team coordinator Nick (not an easy job amongst all the madness). We were a compact squad, but keen to take on the challenge of more widths per member. OK, we might have bent the rules a bit regarding age and sex but luckily the judges didn’t seem to notice.

Yago waits for the gun at the Tooting gala

Not the warmest of water at the Tooting Lido Races

The other teams had some very strong swimmers: two teams from Tooting, the Out to Swim team and the Serpentine team. However, we did manage to win two of the races with both Yago and Michael winning their individual crawl, so well done to them.

Michael swims butterfly for Brockwell Swimmers

Fabulous crawl from Yago at the Tooting Races SLSC

There was certainly no hanging around with races rapidly started one after the other. Congratulation to the Tooting ‘Tuna’ team who came overall first, while we came fifth out of the five. Yes last, same as last year. Consistent if nothing else.

Breast stroke from Sebastian for Brockwell Swimers

Back to some warm clothing for Brockwell Swimmers at Tooting Lido Races

A BIG thanks to South London Swimming Club for their splendid organisation and we look forward to returning in June for their Mid-Summer Relays… when the water will be a little warmer we hope!

Interested in a Gala?

Anyone interested in joining the Brockwell Swimmers team please contact us.