On Saturday 5th November, 11 SCB swimmers made the long journey to Glasgow to swim the long 1500m event. There were fantastic swims across the board and the team returned with 6 gold and 4 silver medals. Well done to all!
Author: Brian Bain
Silver City Blues win British Championships in Aberdeen
After a great weekend of swimming, fun, fitness and friendship, Silver City Blues were announced as the winners of the Cupar Trophy last night! A huge well done to all the swimmers this weekend who swam some incredible individual and relay swims. Thanks must also go to all our coaches for your hard work at […]
Brian’s “cool” holiday to Poland
In February 2022, SCB’s very own Brian Bain travelled to Glogow in Poland, along with 8 other GB swimmers, to take on the icy challenge of the World Ice Swimming Championships. To put into context how much of a challenge this is, the water temperature varied from 3 – 3.5˚C and there were no wetsuits […]
Removal of Booking System
From 1st November 2021, SCB are no longer operating a booking system for their training sessions. The number of swimmers per lane is maximum 6. All personnel attending training (excluding trial members) must have a Standing Order set up to pay their monthly fees.
SCB Complete Virtual Tour of European Capitals
As part of their efforts to keep fit during the second national lockdown, members of the club have spent the last 12 weeks on a virtual tour of Europe. The “Silver City Blues Grand European Lockdown Tour 2021” had two objectives; Travel the distance between all the capitals of Europe (including some less obvious ones), […]
COVID-19 Update
The club are once again in an extended period of not training due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. We are looking forwarded to welcoming our swimmers back to the water when we are allowed to. If anyone is thinking of joining the club when we return to the water, please email membershipsecretary@silvercityblues.org.uk for more […]
SCB Travel the “Virtual” World
At 11:20 A.M. on the 30th June the club completed their lockdown challenge of performing a virtual world tour which started on 1st May. By the middle of June we had fallen behind schedule but rallied in the last two weeks to get to complete the distance with half a day to spare. SCB really […]
SCB May Challenge Summary
Well done, and thank you to everyone who completed the challenge in May. We collectively “travelled” 11555.11 miles, and exceeded the original target. We are now “continuing around the world” to get home again during June 2020!
Almost half way…
As of last night, we have completed 4772 miles out of a total of 9750 on our way to Japan, and are just 100 miles away from the half way mark!
Progress after 7 days…
As of last night, we have now “travelled” 2980 miles since 1st May. We are making our way through Iran, along the coast of the Caspian Sea and on our way to Turkmenistan. Lets see what this weekend brings – only 6770 miles to go until we reach Japan.