Kate Mason Swim Coaching Weymouth – Open Water and Pool based in Weymouth and Portland Dorset
My name is Kate Mason and I live in the Weymouth Dorset. If you need swimming lessons or open water coaching , please contact me, I will be pleased to help you.
A little about myself:
Club Coach for Weyport Masters for the last 15 yrs
ASA Swimming Club Coach and Teacher
ASA Open Water Coach
Current National Pool Lifeguard
Current Emergency first aid certificate
Power Boat Level II qualified
YMCA Personal Trainer, specialising in GP Referral, cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation and clients with long term neurological conditions.
I run specialist exercise classes at Osprey leisure Centre Portland.
INWA Nordic walking Instructor, I run regularly workshops and Saturday walking sessions throughout the year. One to one sessions are always available too!
Wet but still smiling.
Heading to the White Horse!
Portland Bill in the sunshine and coffee!
Beautiful coastline to Lulworth.
More about me!
English Channel Swimming
I guess I started my swimming career being taken to the beach and given an old car inner tube as my swimming aid! I didn’t swim as a child in a swimming club but was always involved in other sports representing my school and the county.
I qualified as a General Nurse and then registered Midwife and so swimming was low on the list of activities at this time!
Portland Harbour
I started swimming to get fit in my early thirties, after having my family. I started getting involved with a local swimming club, helping out, swimming myself and then becoming one of the coaches. My first introduction to sea swimming was taking part in the Portland Harbour Swim which was organised by Portland Dolphins. In 1996 I organised a 6 person charity English Channel.
Since then I have been fortunate to have completed many more swims such as:
Solo English Channel 22 miles
Solo Gulf of Toroneus Greece 26k
Solo Lake Zurich Switzerland 26k five times!
Solo Round Jersey 38 miles
Solo Rottnest Island Perth Australia 20k
Solo Jurassic Coast West Bay to Portland 26 k (as part of an Enduroman event)
Solo Round Manhattan Island 28 miles USA
3 x English Channel relays 6, 5 and 3 person
1st triathlon at Club la Santa
Triathlons (a new experience for me!)
Volcano triathlon Lanzarote 2013
Ironman Austria June 2013
Ironman 70.3 Majorca May 2014
Ironman Zurich Switzerland July 2014
Challenge UK Weymouth September 2014
Lake Geneva two person relay 70k/44miles August 2015
Marathon des sables April 2016
Solo swim Jersey to France July 2016
Rose Pitonof Swim Manhattan to Coney Island August 2016
Lake Orta Solo 27km July 2017
Marathon des Sables Peru Nov/Dec 2017
One way Lake Coniston and Lake Windermere 2018
Enduroman Arch to Arc (London to Paris) completed Sept 2019 #45
