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Do skins swimmers deserve separate results listings?
Should event organisers list the results for wetsuit and non-wetsuit swimmers separately or together? The default, at least for many…
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Competitive swimming for the not-so-fast
Rod Newing has written an interesting piece for us on how the Serpentine Swimming Club uses a handicap system in its weekly…
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Cold water swimming: Don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it
Alice Todd, who works with Coningham-Rolls Swimming Holidays*, introduced her sceptical sister to cold water swimming, with impressive results. You…
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What to wear in winter: tips for cold water swimmers
Just in case anyone’s landed on this page by mistake, this isn’t a fashion column. Last weekend Ella Foote invited…
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Turning novices into open water swimmers
Earlier this year a small group of people got together with a common interest in open water swimming with a…
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Adam Walker tackles Japan’s Tsugaru Strait
Adam Walker has now completed five of the Oceans Seven swims. His fifth, Japan’s Tsugaru Strait, was his toughest yet.…
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How hard do you chase your dreams?
In 2008, Gideon Nasilowski watched the Paralympic swimming in Beijing and set himself a goal: to become Namibia’s first Paralympic…
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Double Forth: is Sheila first?
The swim across the Forth River from Hawes Pier at South Queensferry to the pier at North Queensferry, and the…
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END-WET 27km down river swimming race
I did a great event this summer in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA of all places. It is a down-river…
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Another hot weekend, another tragedy, another call to avoid open water swimming
The routine is depressingly familiar. The sun comes out, people look for somewhere to cool off, someone drowns and the…
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New Windermere Record
Dr Julie Bradshaw MBE is not most people and has a long track record in distance butterfly swimming, and so…
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Should race organisers be encouraging people to swim in the Thames?
Earlier this week I interviewed Nick Rusling, CEO of Human Race, one of the UK’s largest open water swimming event…
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When to test your limits, and when not to
There’s a motivational quote doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment that says something like: “You don’t know your…
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Lane etiquette for open water swimmers
We wade into this topic with some trepidation as nothing seems to provoke debate and heated exchanges among swimmers like…
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The Tyranny of the Pace Clock
It’s a tool anyone who’s trained in a pool should be familiar with and something coaches and swimming magazines (including…
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Why it’s sometimes an advantage to be a less experienced swimmer
Have you noticed how sometimes the least experienced swimmers set themselves the most audacious goals? I gave some examples in…
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David Coleman’s Jersey to France swim
Swimming from Jersey to France has long been an ambition of mine as it is recognised as a tough and…
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Insight into a world-beating two-way English Channel relay
On 14 July 2013 a team of women calling themselves Andy’s Channel Ladies two-way World Record Breakers did exactly what…
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How good do you want to be (and how hard will you work for it)?
ave you ever dreamed of being a faster swimmer, being able to conquer great distances or swim in near-freezing water?…
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Hell hath no fury – like a swum-over swimmer
The subject of proper pool behaviour seems as inexhaustible as a marathon swimmer. A few weeks back in our newsletter…
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“I’m doing an Ironman tomorrow: can you teach me to swim?”
If you want some cheap entertainment ask a swimming coach to regale you with some their stories. The “I’m doing…
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Ellery McGowan tackles the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (MIMS)
I had been training hard for the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (MIMS) since completing the 17.5-mile NYC Swim “Ederle Swim”…
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Anne-Marie Ward talks
This is an interview Anne-Marie Ward gave to Priority Sport where she describes her love of open water swimming and…
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How far is 3km?
It sounds like a trick question: 3km is 3,000m right? No question about it, unless perhaps you’re a physicist and…
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Never mind the rain: Simon John Parkin’s Marlow experience
Eight o’clock on Sunday morning, 25 August 13, doing star jumps in the pouring rain, squeezed into a wetsuit and…
