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Official account of the Serpentine Swimming Club. Founded in 1864. Hyde Park, London. For messages and news, visit our website. No official answers here.

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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
The Serpentine Swimming Club is proud to be inducted today as an honouree of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF). Based in Hyde Park, London, the club was founded in 1864 and is a haven for cold water enthusiasts, and a major hub for marathon swimmers.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
Reopening in sight 🏊🏻‍♀️🏊‍♂️🦆 There has been a positive meeting with The Royal Parks and the Committee will convene as soon as possible. We hope to be able to announce a reopening along with our ‘Covid secure’ protocols shortly. Alan Mitchell, SSC President
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
20 Apr 2022: Water - 59.7F / 15.4C; Air - 55.4F / 13.0C. Really is that warm. The thermometer never lies, unlike prime minister Boris Johnson who always does.
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Serps Swimming Club
1 year
Water 21.3 Air 20 Today we mourn those lost in recent tragedies at sea. The hundreds of desperate refugees drowned off Greece The five adventurers on the Titan submersible And our fellow Channel swimmer Iain Hughes May the waves carry them to peaceful eternal rest.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
29 Nov 2022: Water - 46.4F / 8.0C; Air - 46.4F / 8.0C. Guessing the temperature but it's bloody chilly. Parliament Hill Lido has lifeguards. We don't. Please underdo it.
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@SerpsSwimClub
Serps Swimming Club
4 years
LONG READ AHEAD - GRAB A CUP OF TEA Reopening of Serps for swimming is coming soon....
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
26 Jan 2022: Water - 38.8F / 3.8C; Air - 41.0F / 5.0C. Being ambushed with a cake is a recreational hazard at the Serpentine club.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
04 Nov 2020: Water - 50.0F / 10.0C; Air - 42.8F / 6.0C. Whatever happens, the sun never sets on Serpentine swimming.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
03 Nov 2020: Water - 52.7F / 11.5C; Air - 46.4F / 8.0C. All holding our breath and swimming the stroke of luck on this day of decision
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
11 Jan 2022: Water - 41.9F / 5.5C; Air - 46.4F / 8.0C. I don't know whether I attended the Serpentine this morning, it's still the subject of an investigation.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
18 May 2020: Water - 59.0F / 15.0C; Air - 57.0F / 13.9C. Never ever having swum after 9.30 before, felt deliciously decadent today.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
07 Dec 2021: Water - 40.1F / 4.5C; Air - 39.2F / 4.0C. Please spare a thought for the poor souls @Brockwell_Lido
@Brockwell_Lido
Brockwell Lido
3 years
Just an update we are awaiting an engineer to repair the sauna however our steam room is open.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
16 Nov 2021: Water - 49.6F / 9.8C; Air - 42.8F / 6.0C. Introducing mandatory hack testing. No journalist may report on the club unless they have swum 100m at less than 10 degrees.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
Welcome to our new 200 members!
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
We join those around the world in sending their condolences to the Royal Family and in expressing their profound gratitude to Her Majesty, The Queen, for her life of service.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
18 Nov 2020: Water - 50.0F / 10.0C; Air - 53.6F / 12.0C. If you want to swim in the Serp again, don't swim in the Serp now.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
25 Dec 2021: Water - 43.5F / 6.4C; Air - 46.4F / 8.0C. Congratulations to dear Mike Harris winning the Peter Pan cup. Many thanks to our piper, swimmers, spectators and especially helpers for triumphantly restoring our great Christmas swimming tradition!
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
03 Dec 2020: Water - 44.6F / 7.0C; Air - 42.8F / 6.0C. Honeymoon over. More degrees than there were swimmers in the water.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
24 Jan 2022: Water - 39.2F / 4.0C; Air - 39.2F / 4.0C. Water is densest at 4 degrees C as its cooling molecules slow down. Below 4C, it starts to expand again because fixed hydrogen bonds form holding the molecules apart, a peculiarity shared by no other liquid.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
02 Dec 2020: Water - 44.6F / 7.0C; Air - 37.4F / 3.0C. EVERYBODY IN!
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
09 Sep 2020: Water - 61.0F / 16.1C; Air - 59.0F / 15.0C. We're not gathering, we're swimming. Don't even think about it.
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@SerpsSwimClub
Serps Swimming Club
10 days
GOOD NEWS: After a 10-day blue green algae interruption, the Serpentine Swimming Club will reopen tomorrow morning Tuesday 4 June 2024 for swimming.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
25 Dec 2020: Water - 43.0F / 6.1C; Air - 37.4F / 3.0C. Yule be glad to hear thanks to wardens and swimmers a perfect Christmas day!
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
15 Sep 2022: Water - 65.5F / 18.6C; Air - 59.0F / 15.0C. There is now one portaloo for each member of the Serps club in Hyde Park.
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Serps Swimming Club
7 months
Water 10.5 Air 9 Changing room toilet looking so much nicer after yesterday’s clearout.
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Serps Swimming Club
5 months
Water 6.4 Air 2 Medals galore for Super Serpies at the Cheltenham championships of the International Ice Swimming Association.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
10 Jan 2022: Water - 40.6F / 4.8C; Air - 39.2F / 4.0C. Good riddance to Winter Wonderland and the Marble Arch Mound.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
28 Mar 2021: Water - 48.7F / 9.3C; Air - 51.3F / 10.7C. Cossies are being packed, hats dusted off and towels rolled up...
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
19 Jan 2022: Water - 39.2F / 4.0C; Air - 41.0F / 5.0C. In the name of God, go swimming!
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
01 Nov 2020: Water - 53.0F / 11.7C; Air - 51.8F / 11.0C. Open may be the most beautiful word in the English language
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
30 Mar 2021: Water - 50.0F / 10.0C; Air - 55.8F / 13.2C. You all had a dip and you all did us proud. Temp a perfect 10 on a perfect day.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
23 Mar 2021: Water - 48.7F / 9.3C; Air - 48.2F / 9.0C. We mourn the cruel loss of Freddie the seal, dear fellow Thames swimmer.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
03 Oct 2020: Water - 57.7F / 14.3C; Air - 57.2F / 14.0C. Temp estimated from under my duvet. If you swam today you are awesome.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
03 Jun 2020: Water - 66.0F / 18.9C; Air - 64.0F / 17.8C. Membership includes a guaranteed minimum sunny days per year. You've had em.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
19 Aug 2020: Water - 68.0F / 20.0C; Air - 65.5F / 18.6C. New members will be able to join when the old ones are bored with each other.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
28 Apr 2021: Water - 54.5F / 12.5C; Air - 50.0F / 10.0C. We salute the tragic bravery of Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, lost in a rescue attempt at London Bridge.
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Serps Swimming Club
1 year
23 Apr 2023: Water - 54.5F / 12.5C; Air - 50.0F / 10.0C. This is a test of Everybody Out, a new Serps Club service that will warn you when to stop swimming. In the event, head to the nearest exit, get out and have a cup of tea. This is a test. You do not need to take any action.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
24 Mar 2022: Water - 51.8F / 11.0C; Air - 51.8F / 11.0C. Wardens keep us safe and swimming. Some even babysit and bring cake. What's not to like? Thank them and join them!
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
Members will be aware of the Prime Ministers statement this evening. The Serpentine Swimming Club will therefore comply and cease swimming activity with immediate effect. I do not think I need to add more. Alan Mitchell
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
01 Mar 2021: Water - 45.9F / 7.7C; Air - 42.4F / 5.8C. Neither official nor certain but hope 4 weeks from today to be back where we belong.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
20 Nov 2022: Water - 49.5F / 9.7C; Air - 48.2F / 9.0C. One of the greatest events in world sport is back, a festival of skill and friendship with competitors of many nations. We came a close second to @slsclido , whom we thank for hosting and look forward to welcoming Serpside.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
08 Nov 2020: Water - 49.8F / 9.9C; Air - 51.8F / 11.0C. Great news from across the pond. The Trumpeter swan is now a lame duck.
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Serps Swimming Club
7 months
Water 9.2 Air 8 There’s a pot of cold at the end of the rainbow.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
13 Sep 2021: Water - 66.9F / 19.4C; Air - 60.8F / 16.0C. We reopen for swimming Tuesday morning warmer than when we closed!
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
23 Nov 2021: Water - 46.4F / 8.0C; Air - 39.2F / 4.0C. A single ticket for Peppa Pig World costs more than a year's membership of the Serps club.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
09 Sep 2022: Water - 66.2F / 19.0C; Air - 62.6F / 17.0C. Bless you Ma'am, a mourning swim with immense gratitude to our proprietor and protector.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
05 Jan 2021: Water - 38.7F / 3.7C; Air - 37.4F / 3.0C. Eau revoir...
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
16 Jul 2020: Water - 63.0F / 17.2C; Air - 60.8F / 16.0C. Test pass rate shows new members can swim and old ones can remember their name.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
02 Aug 2020: Water - 70.0F / 21.1C; Air - 65.0F / 18.3C. Hot sunny weekend, all members can swim, no overcrowding. We did it.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
20 Dec 2020: Water - 44.6F / 7.0C; Air - 42.8F / 6.0C. So lucky! Dry your tears, we can still get wet in the froth tier Serpentine.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
02 Jan 2021: Water - 39.2F / 4.0C; Air - 39.2F / 4.0C. Temperature will stay the same for the 4C-able future.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
20 Jul 2020: Water - 68.0F / 20.0C; Air - 60.8F / 16.0C. From today, swimmers can have whatever surname they want before 7am.
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Serps Swimming Club
1 year
25 Dec 2022: Water - 40.6F / 4.8C; Air - 50.0F / 10.0C. A South African photo finish as Katie homes in on Squirril to win the Peter Pan Cup by a whisker. Thanks to our stewards, piper and Secret Santa for another perfect start to Christmas Day.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
29 Oct 2020: Water - 51.4F / 10.8C; Air - 50.0F / 10.0C. Exemplary social distancing, most Serps members stayed miles apart today.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
21 Oct 2022: Water - 54.9F / 12.7C; Air - 55.4F / 13.0C. It's not just the pound. Serp temperature dropped 6.8 degrees during the Truss premiership.
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Serps Swimming Club
1 year
26 Dec 2022: Water - 40.1F / 4.5C; Air - 41.0F / 5.0C. After a sunny Boxing Day morning let's look back 50 years to Blue Peter at the pond
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BBC Archive
1 year
Blue Peter's John Noakes was up early one winter morning in 1972 to experience swimming in the Serpentine at Hyde Park - the scene of this morning's traditional Serpentine Christmas Swim.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
20 Jan 2022: Water - 39.0F / 3.9C; Air - 35.6F / 2.0C. Cold water swimming is no laughing matter. Please read carefully
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
19 Apr 2021: Water - 52.7F / 11.5C; Air - 50.0F / 10.0C. Forming a Super League with @slsclido @KLPA1985 @menspond so we can stuff ourselves with even more cake.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
24 Mar 2020: Water - 43.0F / 6.1C; Air - 42.8F / 6.0C. Temperatures taken in a bucket of water in my back garden.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
31 Dec 2020: Water - 39.2F / 4.0C; Air - 33.8F / 1.0C. 247th day of Serp swimming this year. Well done, we made it. Good riddance 2020.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
04 Mar 2022: Water - 45.9F / 7.7C; Air - 48.2F / 9.0C. Anyone spending too long in the water will have their assets frozen.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
29 Mar 2021: Water - 49.1F / 9.5C; Air - 50.9F / 10.5C. Serp unblocked after 82 days, backlog of swimmers floating free.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
The Serpentine Swimming Club will reopen membership to 200 new members at 8pm on Sunday 13 June 2021. Please check the website for details.
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Serps Swimming Club
7 months
Water 7 Air 1 Temperature plunges and so do swimmers, even the buoys are pinker than usual.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
23 Jun 2020: Water - 65.0F / 18.3C; Air - 75.0F / 23.9C. Parks seeking clarification of our safe tea measures before we can reopen
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
18 Jul 2022: Water - 75.4F / 24.1C; Air - 80.6F / 27.0C. Don’t run, don’t walk, don’t travel, don’t work. That only leaves one thing.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
31 Mar 2020: Water - 44.0F / 6.7C; Air - 41.0F / 5.0C. Absence makes the heart grow ponder
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Serps Swimming Club
11 months
Water 17.6 Air 14 Top seed Poppy won the Radford Mile and Alan sailed across the Channel in 13 hours, a lucky dip for sure.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 months
Water 8.2 Air 11 Congratulations to Team Serp in Romania at the Ice Swimming European Championships to Heidi and Nick Murch and to Katie who won all the other medals.
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Serps Swimming Club
1 year
25 Jan 2023: Water - 37.6F / 3.1C; Air - 32.0F / 0C. In the Scotch mist the water freezes and Rabbie Burns. Bags were piped, drams were drunk and the haggis won the pudding race. Thank ye all!
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
19 Sep 2021: Water - 67.5F / 19.7C; Air - 60.8F / 16.0C. Thousands of wetsuiters yesterday pumped up the temperature.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
31 Dec 2021: Water - 48.6F / 9.2C; Air - 57.2F / 14.0C. Last swim in the lake For this year, thanks to James N For all his tweeting!!
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
21 Jan 2022: Water - 38.1F / 3.4C; Air - 32.0F / 0C. Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when 9.30 in the morning comes. Swimming after this time is in breach of our licence with the Royal Parks.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
28 Sep 2022: Water - 59.9F / 15.5C; Air - 50.0F / 10.0C. It feels colder than it is as you get fewer centigrade for your fahrenheit these days.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
21 May 2020: Water - 66.0F / 18.9C; Air - 68.0F / 20.0C. Universities are closed but there are higher degrees at the Serpentine.
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
We've reached the 200-member limit! Looking forward to meeting our new members.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
19 Nov 2021: Water - 50.0F / 10.0C; Air - 53.6F / 12.0C. Do we know when the changing room is going to reopen? Yes. Tomorrow.
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Serps Swimming Club
1 year
15 Dec 2022: Water - 35.6F / 2.0C; Air - 28.4F / -2.0C. ice on our chill lake Serpies swimming serenely We are icicles
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
11 May 2021: Water - 56.3F / 13.5C; Air - 56.1F / 13.4C. As central London's premier aquatic mammal colony we mourn the loss of our Minke cousin in the Thames.
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@SerpsSwimClub
Serps Swimming Club
3 years
Welcome to the 200 new members that signed up tonight. Hope to see you at the Serpentine soon. 200 new members joined in 9 mins 45 seconds!
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
13 Oct 2021: Water - 56.3F / 13.5C; Air - 58.3F / 14.6C. Congratulations to the efforts of John Tierney @swimmingdragons and everyone who voted to get the petition over 100K votes, #110580 at close
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@SerpsSwimClub
Serps Swimming Club
10 months
Water 21 Air 17 Swimming’s coming home! Serps open again and clear of algae and Laure @frogmomblog swam to France!
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Serps Swimming Club
8 months
Water 12.7 Air 10 The water was a calm pewter this morning.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
02 Sep 2021: Water - 64.4F / 18.0C; Air - 60.8F / 16.0C. Woke up this morning, little longer to snooze, no time to be swimming, got the green algae blues.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
08 Dec 2020: Water - 41.9F / 5.5C; Air - 37.4F / 3.0C. A mist opportunity for all who swam this morning
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
10 Dec 2022: Water - 38.1F / 3.4C; Air - 28.4F / -2.0C. "On the Icy Board" Nippy qualifying swim for Winter Fettes Cup
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
27 May 2020: Water - 65.0F / 18.3C; Air - 60.0F / 15.6C. Every other swimming club is closed so we are lucky to swim every other day
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Serps Swimming Club
5 months
Water 2 Air -3 How can the water be two degrees when it’s frozen? Because we only swim in the liquid part.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
30 Sep 2020: Water - 58.3F / 14.6C; Air - 57.2F / 14.0C. Thanks to everyone who wardened. Stay safe and be good. We are all wardens now.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
25 May 2020: Water - 63.0F / 17.2C; Air - 59.0F / 15.0C. The Serpentine bank, holiday destination of choice for our members.
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
07 Apr 2021: Water - 48.2F / 9.0C; Air - 39.2F / 4.0C. Bright and cold, a crisp swim indeed! Duck poo flavoured crisp.
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laure latham
3 years
This morning swim at the Serpentine was CRISP!
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
01 Dec 2020: Water - 45.5F / 7.5C; Air - 42.8F / 6.0C. Down from 10C pre-lockdown. December swimming always advent-urous.
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Serps Swimming Club
5 months
Water 2 Air 1 Many Serpies planned to swim but got cold feet.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
18 Jun 2020: Water - 66.0F / 18.9C; Air - 62.6F / 17.0C. Actual Serps temp taken from the dock but no journos present so did not swim
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Serps Swimming Club
2 years
13 Sep 2022: Water - 67.1F / 19.5C; Air - 60.8F / 16.0C. Cosmopolitan Serps relay team renamed We're Really There Wet after 18 hour thriller to France. Congrats and Felicits to Laure, Charlotte, Nicola, Ramin, Paul and Simone!
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
18 Jul 2020: Water - 70.0F / 21.1C; Air - 64.4F / 18.0C. Bridge to Bridge race swum uncompetitively, length cut by four-fifths. All won.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
24 May 2020: Water - 61.0F / 16.1C; Air - 57.0F / 13.9C. After swimming for a week we are getting strong again
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Serps Swimming Club
3 years
21 Oct 2021: Water - 56.7F / 13.7C; Air - 48.2F / 9.0C. How lucky we are that raw sewage is not dumped in the Serp after rain, although the government has no objection to that occurring.
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Serps Swimming Club
4 years
08 Jul 2020: Water - 62.0F / 16.7C; Air - 60.0F / 15.6C. INDEPONDENCE DAY
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