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After a summer spent swimming exclusively outdoors, I’m strangely reluctant to return to the pool
Would you choose this or a pool? I typically swim four or five times a week in a pool. At…
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If not now, then when?
English Channel swimmer, open water coach and swimming teacher Joanne Jones writes a personal view on returning to the open…
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Simon Griffiths shares an open letter to Jeremy Clarkson
Dear Jeremy, Your article in the Sunday times about wild swimming was recently brought to my attention. It was entertaining.…
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How to keep swimming fit during the coronavirus pandemic
Thinking about keeping fit for swimming while there’s a coronavirus pandemic raging may seem, at best, a little odd, or,…
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8 tips for working from home
Here at Outdoor Swimmer we are experts at working from home. You might imagine that we have a big office…
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Is the open water still open?
At the time of writing leisure centres and swimming pools are closed and the government has advised us to avoid…
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Seven reasons why an enforced break from swimming might be good for you
There’s been lots of social media chat this week about whether outdoor swimming could be acceptable as your allocated one…
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When and how might we get back to outdoor swimming?
I’ve previously written about the impact of coronavirus on businesses involved in or connected to outdoor swimming (see “How Coronavirus…
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How to cope with life when you can’t swim
My working assumption is that everyone has bad stuff in their lives to deal with: traumatic events in the past,…
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Alternatives to swimming: the pros and cons
Does anyone remember those times before coronavirus? In that previous life, people would occasionally ask me, how do I find…
