| Well done Paul and Helen on your excellent swims at the K2 meet! Helen was faced with a large competitive age group entry and narrowly missed a couple of medals. Paul brought home 3 silver medals and a bronze, and he bagged another PB on his 200m Breaststroke. Results: Helen:
Paul:
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Karen and Lynda flew the RNSC flag at an extremely busy Barnet Copthall Sprint meet. They may have been disappointed not to have done PBs, but what a fantastic medal haul - 2 Golds, 5 Silvers and 2 Bronze! Lynda made a clean sweep of first places in the Backstroke events and Karen, despite having a cold/cough, completed 5 events and posted an excellent time for her 200m Freestyle! Results (Both in 65-69 years age group):
Roy and Paul raced at the Berks and South Bucks Masters meet at Bracknell and brought back 4 Gold medals, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze...
Well done on your PBs and medal haul!
Well done to our competitors at the Barnet Copthall Distance Meet. Our team of five brought home a good medal haul and there were a couple of good PBs as well.
Martin was the only RNSC competitor at this meet, and was also the only male in his age group. So despite achieving 'Personal Worsts' in all 4 races, he won 4 gold medals.
Helen was our sole intrepid traveller to venture to Aberdeen for this long course event. In Helen's own words: "I competed in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke, this is the first time at Nationals and had a great time. It was amazing to learn so much and be inspired by so many fast swimmers. I am very grateful to our friends at Barnet Copthall who adopted me for the weekend and invited me out for several good meals. Here are my times : now looking at Europeans and Worlds in 2027!
Our team of 6 raced at the London Aquatic Centre, the 50 metre Olympic pool. Generally we were pleased with our times and coped well with the 50m pool (except me!). A strong swim from Helen in the 200m breaststroke has enabled her to meet the qualifying time for national events. Lynda and Clair, in adjacent lanes, entertained with a synchro performance in the 100m backstroke, with Clair just pulling ahead in the last 25m. A strong 200m breaststroke from Paul won him a bronze, and Roy's 100m backstroke won him a gold. Martin messed up both dive starts and the only turn, enough said.  Our results:  Full results, with splits are available here:
https://www.swimming.org/library/documents/7650/download Four of us raced at this year's Reading Meet. Out of 67 teams, RNSC came 11th on points! Aside from the medal haul, Clair, Helen and Paul got some excellent PBs!  Our results:
Roy was our only representative at the Newmarket Masters Meet. He won gold medals in each of his six races, but had no challengers in his age group this time (80-84yrs). His race times are what really count!
Roy was our only representative at the Gloucester Masters Meet. His results:
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