Same time - very different places:)

35 days to go. I've been adding a few more details into our global participants map http://g.co/maps/z5s8c and one of the things that has struck me is the amazing range of local event times for the 1 hour world record attempt.

So here is Paul's mini-guide to who's swimming when - please do let me know if I've made any errors - those time zones can get awfully confusing. On our Facebook page the other day, a contact  in South Africa (I won't mention the name) posted that they would be taking part from 10am to 11am. I double checked and discovered that South Africa is actually 2 hours in front of UK time so they would need to swim between 2pm and 3pm in the afternoon. Luckily once he'd discovered this they were able to change the event to the right time (just before all the fliers were due to go out!)

OK let's salute our 4 earliest risers first:

0100-0200

•  Rotary Club of Hutt Valley 9940 New Zealand Joanna Newlove
• Rotary Club of Feilding 9940 New Zealand Ngaire Leins
• Rotary Club of Matamata 9930 New Zealand Don Stanley  
• Rotary Club of Karori 9940 New Zealand Howard Tong / Michael Fagg 

 Then it's a relative lie in for these 2 :

0400-0500

• Rotary Club of San Diego 5340 USA William Newbern
• Rotary Club of La Jolla Sunrise 5340 USA Barbara Held

0600-0700 - early start for :

• Rotary Club of Greenhills 6760 USA Beth Matter

0700-0800 - breakfast club

• Rotary Club of Kingston 7040 Canada Lucille Davies W.J Henderson Recreation Centre Pool
• Toronto Earls Court Rotary Club Canada Pauline Nottall , Doralice Ferreira
• Rotary Club of Lake Placid 7040 USA Robert Hanna
• Rotary Club of Midtown Atlanta 6900 USA Tom Underwood

0900-1000 - mid morning

• Rotary Club of San Rafael Argentina Mariano Egea

1200-1300 - The Greenwich Mean Team

• Rotary Club of Grantham 1070 UK Roger Graves Grantham Meres Pool
• Rotary Club of Worsley 1280 UK Aled Owen
• Rotary Club of Aberdeen 1010 UK Peter Carry
• Rotary Club of Brampton and Longtown 1190 UK Kevin Walsh The Pools , Carslisle
• Rotary Club of Shepshed 1070 UK Robert Hall
• Rotary Club of Mawwdach 1180 UK Beryl Clark
• Rotary Club of Petersfield 1110 UK Lawrence Tristam
• Rotary Club of Sleaford 1070 UK John Scott
• Rotary Club of Knaresborough 1040 UK Sarah Bosomworth
• Rotary Club of South Holland 1070 UK David Walters
• Rotary Club of St Ives 1070 UK David Cole
• Rotary Club of Grantham Kesteven 1070 UK Marion Strange
• Rotary Club of Wareham 1110 UK David King
• Rotary Club of Ashby De la zouch castle 1070 UK Tony Evans
• Rotary Club of Alnwick 1030 UK Marion Long
• Rotary Club of Waterford 1030 Ireland Kjell Nolke / Donal Buckley
• Rotary Club of Newark Castle 1220 UK Dave Strange
• Rotary Club of Peterborough Werrington 1070 UK Graham Walker
• Rotary Club of Ramsey 1280 UK Peter Whiteaway
• Rotary Club of Deepings 1070 UK Peter Hibbins
• Rotary Club of Melton Mowbray Belvoir 1070 UK David Sharp
• Rotary Club of Polmont 1020 UK Ken Donald

1400-1500 - African afternoon

• Rotary Club of Mafikeng 9400 South Africa Trevor Watson-Thomas
• Rotary Club of Port Elizabeth South 9320 South Africa Noelene Jorgensen
• Rotary Club of East London Sunrise 9320 South Africa Sheryl Maastrecht/ Butch Coetzee
• Rotary Club of Jeffrey's Bay 9320 South Africa Carina De Flamingh
• Rotary Club of El Tahrir 2450 Egypt Nevine Abdelkhalek
• Rotary Club of Middelburg South Africa Mariette Stapelberg

1500-1600-  African late afternoon

• Rotary Club of Nairobi 9200 Kenya David Hastie

  1700 - 1800 - Pakistan tea time

• Rotary Club of Faisalabad City 3272 Pakistan Mubashar Butt

1730- 1830 - India tea time

• Rotary Club of Thane Suburban 3140 India Smriti Gulwady
• Rotary Club of Salem Midtown 2980 India Balasubramaniam SP
• Rotary Club of Salem Central 2980 India Vasu Rajaram
• Rotary Club of Hubli West 3170 India Satish Rao
• Rotary Club of Sawantwadi 3170 India Jayprakash Walke

2000-2100 - Supper time 3

• Rotary Club of Kwinana 9465 Australia James Sharkey 2000-2100
• Rotary Club of Zamboanga City 3850 Phillipines Riki Lim
• Rotary Club of Talisay-Cebu 3860 Phillipines April Dequito

2130-2230 - Outback time

• Rotary Club of Tennant Creek 9950 Australia Greg Marlow Tennant Creek Pool  

2200-2300 - Late night party time

• Rotary Club of Townsville Daybreak 9950 Australia Marcel McCleod
• Rotary Club of Mareeba 9950 Australia Ida Portella
• Rotary Club of Atherton 9950 Australia Kay Eccleshare
• Rotary Club of Cairns Sunrise 9950 Australia Daniel Hubner

  Overall we have 13 very different times of day -what a remarkable collective example of unity that is. All of us with one purpose -to swim for End Polio Now - utterly inspiring!
 
I can't wait to get all the footage from all the different events and put a montage together. And of course we're far from done yet with the signups -why not register your club today at http://www.rotaryglobalswimarathon.org/ - we've always got time for you!!