{"id":12601,"date":"2026-03-18T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=12601"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:55:32","slug":"london-region-open-water-development-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=12601","title":{"rendered":"London Region open water development day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">London Region will be hosting an open water development day at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Luxborough+Lakes\/@51.61939,0.050945,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x47d8a126f97665d1:0xa7fc9db3ac79ab7f!8m2!3d51.61939!4d0.0535199!16s%2Fg%2F11rc6p2_9t?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luxborough Lakes<\/a> in Chigwell on Sunday 7 June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">For age group swimmers, this development day offers the opportunity to get some experience in open water and develop and hone race skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The day will also include the basics of pack swimming, sighting and course navigation, negotiating turn buoys, mass starts and finishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Swimmers must be 11 years or over on December 31, have a wetsuit and be able to demonstrate the ability to swim a minimum of 800m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimming.org\/london\/open-water-swimming-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for further information and registration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of London Region open water development day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"category-open-water","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12601"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12631,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions\/12631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}