A swimmer’s perspective of the city
City swimming can be a thrilling experience, as demonstrated by the epic swims in the Seine in Paris this summer.
What can we learn from watching elite swimmers at the Olympics? Their feats of human endeavour seem so far away from the kind of swimming many of us do – especially when you compare the 10k open water marathon swim to a wild dip. Indeed, we know from our reader surveys that many readers of this magazine aren’t interested in elite level swimming.
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Jonathan Cowie
Jonathan is a year-round skins swimmer with a particular love of very cold water. He has competed in ice swimming competitions around the world. He is a qualified open water coach with a particular love of introducing new swimmers to the open water.
