Events For SLSC Members
There’s a cup for each Sunday and one for all seasons. We started holding our Sunday morning races at Tooting Bec Lido in 1908. The practice continues to this day, with the Right Honourable Handicapper taking charge, whose dream is that one day we will all touch together. Just being there, we do that anyway.
Entrance to races is open to all paid up SLSC members. In order that the handicappers can estimate a fair handicap for all swimmers, swimmers must have participated in at least three races before they become eligible to win a cup. To be eligible to win the Christmas/New year cup(s) you must have swum in three of the Autumn races. To be eligible to win Summer season cups you must have swum in at least four races within the last 12 months.
Check the Club notice board at Tooting Bec Lido for information on how to enter these events or check out the 2012 Sunday Race list. Races for juniors are also on this list.
If this makes it sound all very serious we should add that its good fun, a great way to catch up with friends and fellow devotees of the Lido, with homemade cakes and coffee in the Winter (the café is open in the Summer). Special events include Christmas and New Year races, a Summer BBQ and the River Thames Swim.
