Did you know? Cerberus is the watchdog of Hell with Hades as his master. The three heads relate to the threefold symbol of the baser forces of life. They represent the past, the present and the time yet to come. Cerberus patrolled the river Styx, where he had the task of eating any mortals (Brunswick Belugas) who attempted to enter, and any spirits who attempted to escape. On that note I am relieved to report the legendary Cerberus was busy devouring baddies…
Saturday was a stinking hot day. However, by late afternoon the cool change had set the atmosphere for another glorious evening at the Harold Holt Memorial Pool. Three intrepid Belugas set forth to ensure the club was noted despite the paltry show of registrants. Duncan Howard, Paul Turner and Mike Whitburn proudly donned their club kit to alert the crowd of our intention to challenge all comers. Paul and Duncan set forth to make their mark in the Patrick Devine…
What a glorious mild Saturday to head off to the Bellarine Peninsula to do another open water swim. At Queenscliff the anticipation is always there with all the crowd hype and the cannon blast start sending shock waves to fire up your competitive surge. The fun all starts at the registration tent to meet the fellow Belugas and scan for your adversaries. The shirt fits fine so off we go to the coffee shop for the social spark to ignite the…
Point Lonsdale was the setting for our first open water swim of 2016 … a chance for 17 Belugas to work off some of the overindulgences of Christmas and hit the open water with renewed purpose (along with 1,531 others). This year saw the addition of a new distance of 3.8km in addition to the traditional 1.4km Rip View Classic. Anthony Ferguson and Paul Turner bravely entered the new swim and indeed opted to do it without a shred of neoprene. Even more impressively,…
After a long winter of training in the pool, the Mentone Swim was our first open-water competition outing; a chance to test our fitness in ocean conditions without a black line to follow on the bottom. Fifteen Belugas decided to take the plunge, split roughly 50:50 between the longer 2.5km swim and the all-out 1km dash. Some cracking times were set in both events, with some well-deserved podium finishes for our swimming superstars (Jaye Dowling, 1st; Tracy Cameron, 3rd; Anthony Purcell, 3rd)….