Wimmin swimmers have now settled into a pattern of peaceful relaxed pleasure in the water. The health benefits for women are a bonus, these include:
- Regular swimming increases joint flexibility and tones muscles.
- Women-only swimming sessions offer safe environments for our members to feel comfortable and connected.
- The combination of cardio-exercise and resistance strengthens the heart and muscles simultaneously.
Ideally regular sessions enhance these benefits, so one of our aims in setting up the group was to increase our participants confidence in the water to be able to use the mainstream facilities at Teesdale Leisure Centre. The centre offers frequent Aquarobic sessions (mostly attended by women) and during the week there are more quiet times that would suit timid swimmers. Avoiding the sometimes thrash, splash and crash lunchtime laned swims makes for a more leisurely experience and often timing your swim straight after the schools’ early afternoon usage, between 3pm and 4pm can afford a gentler, quiet environment.
I saw this terrific linocut in an exhibition One O’Clock Jump, British Linocuts from the Jazz Age in Christchurch NZ Art Gallery in March 2025. Unfortunately I cannot find the artist, maybe Ethel Spowers, maybe Claude Flight. Anyone know?