With a format slightly longer than “official” Aquathlon races, the South London Swimming Club Summer Aquathlon Series allows you to enjoy mid-week summer racing in your backyard (if you live in south London, that is). The pool has an unusual length - 90m, but the 4 races allow you to calibrate your swim & run efforts, as well as to experiment with different paces.

The event is a 1km swim (11 lengths of the pool) followed by a 7.5km run around Tooting Bec Common and the series consists of four events on Wednesday evenings between the end of May and early July.

Otters Pip Bennett and Fedor Gorokhovik won their respective age groups - in each of their 3 races and overall, and they were awarded a mug(!). They both improved by more than a minute since last year’s race, with best times of 42’36 (Pip) and 42’07 (Fedor) respectively.