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Interview: Alex Studzinski
Former German 25km champion Alex Studzinski was forced to take 2016 off swimming due to a shoulder injury. We talked…
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Gone Swimming celebrates sixth year with launch of new outdoor swimming trips in North Wales
Gone Swimming is a swimming holiday and adventure company based in North Wales and entering its sixth season in 2017.…
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Christmas Gift Wish List
If you haven’t yet decided what to put on your Christmas list, check out our selection of perfect open water…
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An Impossibly Beautiful Adventure
In October 2016, Sarah Thomas made history when she swam the length of Lake Powell from Utah to Arizona. Her…
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Wetsuits in the English Channel
"Non!" says Hannah Young The English Channel is the ultimate long distance swim and people come from all over the…
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I love open water swimminmg: Babs Gray
On 16 December 2015 I celebrated my 49th birthday. A week earlier I had become a grandmother and six weeks…
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Macmillan All Out Swim
For the past few months we have been following Sam Brett, who is taking part in the 5km Macmillan All…
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Club of the Month
Panama Swimming Club The Panama Swimming Club in Whitley Bay was founded in 1930 but there has been a sea…
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You Asked, Cassie Answered
The Beijing Olympics 10km marathon swimming bronze medallist answers your questions on dyslexia, diet and swimming with her eyes closed. What does…
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Suits vs Skins
As the winter approaches fewer of us are braving the cold and heading out into the open water, preferring the…
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Film review – Unbelievable: The Chad Le Clos Story
Well, that wasn’t what I was expecting! I thought I was in for something like Cool Runnings but with a…
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Club of the Month
Beyond the Blue “I’m alive!” The exclamation of joy from every swimmer who joins Beyond the Blue as they make…
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Swimrun: your next challenge?
If you haven’t yet heard of swimrun, you are about to. The Swedish endurance sport has hit the UK big…
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Top Six Outdoor Swimming Books
This is by no means a definitive list of outdoor swimming books: it is a personal selection confined by the books…
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Team Work
After flippantly agreeing to join a teammate on an English Channel relay swim – organised by Aspire, the UK’s leading…
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Swimming with the Sharks
We all enjoy wild swimming, but I want to inspire you with another type of swimming: wildlife swimming. All swimmers…
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‘N’ice to know
It may seem strange to be reading about winter swimming in summer, but last winter more of you seemed to…
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Seven Ways to Become a Better Swimmer
What does becoming a better swimmer mean to you? Your first thought might be that better equates to faster. For…
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Make me dizzy
Situated in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, between the impressive islands of Jura and Scarba, is a narrow strait of water…
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Ask the Experts
I’m a 46 year old female who took up swimming again about three years ago. I’ve done a few Great…
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Club of the Month – Brockwell Icicles
The Brockwell Icicles are an informal group of friends who share a love of winter swimming at Brockwell Lido in…
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Swimming my way to recovery
The 16th February 2010 is etched in my memory as the day I heard the words “you may never walk again”.…
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Five swims in five countries for a five-star son
After the sudden death of my son James in December 2015 and the long wait for the autopsy which showed…
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Vicky Miller to swim from the Scilly Isles to UK mainland
Last year Vicky Miller became the tenth woman to swim the North Channel, one of the toughest crossings in the…
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Swimming the length of the United Kingdom’s longest river
On Saturday, after 18 days and 360km, Ross O’Sullivan finished swimming the length of Great Britain’s longest river, the River…
