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Where I’ll be swimming from 25 Feb to 1 March
On Thursday morning, 25 Feb, I will be getting up at a ridiculous time of day to travel across London…
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Get the main things right before worrying about the details
If you’ve been swimming for a while, you’ll know there isn’t a secret formula to turn you from plodder to…
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H2Open’s cold water swimming tips infographic
Download the PowerPoint version here.
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How to use a wetsuit to become a non-wetsuit swimmer
At our H2Open Day recently the water temperature was a little over 12 degrees Centigrade. Some people swam in full wetsuits…
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Winter swimming
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Don’t “smash it”
Thanks to Fiona Ford for the idea for this post. Fiona writes swim training sessions for H2Open and also runs…
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Nine New Year’s resolutions suggestions for open water swimmers
We decided it was that time of year to draw up a list of suggestions for New Year’s resolutions for…
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Things fall into place
One of the pleasures of writing about open water swimming is the opportunity it gives me to meet and talk…
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Swimming for joy: Karen Pickering interview
Karen Pickering is best known as a pool-based 100m and 200m freestyle sprinter and for her impressive collection of 35…
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What goes through the mind of a cold water swimmer?
What do you think when going through a cold water swim? Is it anything like the following, or something completely…
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Dealing with lane etiquette and lane rage
A few weeks back Pauline Squire, bravely in our opinion, posted a comment on the Outdoor Swimming Society’s Facebook page…
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Crossing long island sound
Bruce Olinder shares a family open water swimming tale from Long Island Sound Did you ever stand on the shore…
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Jim Boucher’s 2012 Ederle Swim
Regular long distance swim Jim Boucher sent us this report of his recent swim from the southern tip of Manhattan…
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Aspire Manx Minkes Channel Swim
Jill Bunyan recently completed an English Channel relay crossing raising an impressive £17,000 for Aspire, the spinal cord injury charity,…
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Fighting swim in Firth of Forth
A handful of swimmers, mostly with connections to British Gas, decided to tackle one of the UK’s most famous estuaries…
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One Foot in the Wave – oldest English Channel relay
Michael Jennings, an English Channel swimmer in 1960, just doesn’t know when to give up. Now 74 years young he…
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The Gladiator’s world swimming tour
Becoming an English Channel swimmer is tough, as we discovered in Oct / Nov 2011 issue of H2Open. For Thomas Noblett…
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Mark Robson tackles Windermere
Lake Windermere features highly on many aspiring Channel Swimmer’s training to do lists but at 10.5 miles long it is…
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Brian Kinsella’s perfect day
In all my 54 years I have never been a good swimmer: out of breath after 2 lengths of a…
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Southend to All Hallows to Leigh on Sea
It started one spring day in Leigh on Sea as an idle bet over a pint with a couple of…
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I loved every single stroke – Part 1
Back in November 2012 I started doing some additional training for an 800m time trial, which I managed to do…
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John Wheaton’s failure to sight properly at the Emerald City open water swim
“Where’s the turn buoy?” one of my fellow swimmers asked. We were treading water, waiting for the start gun at…
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David Coleman – two-way Windermere
This was a swim that was not meant to happen this year. I had planned to swim from Jersey to…
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Matt Baker – Henley to Marlow solo
Two months after the official Henley Swim Bridge to Bridge event, I swam the same 14.1km course between the landmark…
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Chris Smith – Escaping Alcatraz
Chris Smith only learnt to swim at the age of 46, at a time where a spinal injury prevented him…
