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 […]
On the 9th of April 2022, a 20 strong team of swimmers from Silver City Blues journeyed south to compete in the Scottish National Open Short Course Masters and Senior Age Group Championships at Tollcross International Swimming Pool. The team consisting of; Brian Bain, Dawn Burke, Day Campbell, Audrey Cooper, Keith Dunnett, Sue Flaherty, Bill […]
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 […]
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.
Three training sessions per week are currently available Wednesday 6:00 – 7:30 PM at RGU Thursday 8:00 – 9:30 PM at Bucksburn Saturday 8:00 – 9:00 AM at RGU Booking and payment for these sessions shall remain on a pay-as-you-go system as used prior to this lockdown until further notice.
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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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!