04/11/2025
Apologies for the late posts, however, it is always nice to come back to these things out of season when we are all missing the swim community.
Sharon Bellamy is a Channel Swimmer!
On 29th September 2025 in a fantastic time of 15hrs 14mins, Sharon Swam the English Channel!! 👏✔️
Sharon has attended every swimcamp and exceeded her goals, amazed herself with what is possible and basically did as she was told with no question...Sharon put her trust into us and worked hard to achieve so much in the last few years. Sharon swam a 2 way Windermere and Jersey to France as practice swims in the run up to her EC.
Luke Venables, also became a Channel Swimmer on 9th October in a time of 14hrs 45mins.
Luke and Sharon became great training buddies on camp over the last couple of years and raced each other around at Dover for the BLDSA Champion of Champions.
Lukes lovely wife, Leonie, gifted an EC swim to Luke for his 50th Birthday and he put his all into training and getting it right. Another great Swimmer who came and trusted the process, took the advice and it paid off after many false alarms, weather delays, boat failure and finally swimming on a day the forecast says was good but it was far from ideal. A tough swim perfectly executed!
It take commitment and dedication from the swimmer but let's not forget the 'other halves' who are there 100% of the time supporting our crazy adventures. Lee & Leonie did that in spades over the last few seasons. Thank you 😊 you are amazing.
Congratulations to you both, Channel Swimmers 👏 👏👏👏
