Open water swimmers – and especially cold water swimmers – are often described as brave. We try to avoid using…

You may already have seen this picture. Julie Lloyd shared it via Twitter earlier this week. What does it say…

We’ve been talking to the publisher of Obstacle Race Magazine about some cross promotion ideas, so last weekend I went…

Apologies if you think I’ve possibly lured you here using the exaggerated headline trick. I don’t have a magical solution…

Last week we asked, “what are you swimming for?” and looked at the pleasure to be had from simply joining…

The old docks in Salford and Lake Coniston only have one thing in common, and that’s water. This means, of…

Swim cancellations and postponements are a fact of life, especially in places with fickle weather. This week I had hoped…

Earlier this summer, southern England was blessed with unusually warm weather and a number of our gravel pit lakes hit…

In last week’s blog post I mentioned I’d been in Brighton and did a little sea swimming. While I was…

Last week I was lucky enough to meet Karen Pickering. For those who don’t know, Karen is one of GB’s…

We’ve had a couple of serious blog posts recently, so we thought we’d lighten the mood and have some fun…

A while ago, a committee member at Serpentine Swimming Club accused me of being “remiss”, if not “negligent”, in failing…

Last weekend I had the pleasure of being a guest of the team behind Swim the Costa Brava at their…

Last weekend was the Great North Swim, which takes place on Windermere in the Lake District. It’s Britain’s largest mass…

At a recent event I came across a young man (late teenager I guess) who was bitterly disappointed about his…

Every now and then, when driving, you come across a cyclist out in the dark, in black clothing, face mostly…

About twice a week I get up early to swim. I go to the pool (or maybe a lake in…

How many times in the national and regional press have you read the word ‘brave’ to describe people going about…

There was a story on the BBC website recently about people campaigning to keep railway level crossings open. National Rail,…

We decided it was that time of year to draw up a list of suggestions for New Year’s resolutions for…

Michael Phelps’s return to competitive swimming at the Arena Grand Prix in Arizona has been greeted with excitement by both…

If you’re a regular pool swimmer (which we know from oursurvey that many open water swimmers also are) you’ll probably have…

Earlier this week a number of papers were talking about ‘Blue Monday’, describing it as the most depressing day of…

The Amateur Swimming Association is currently running its annual T30 challenge for masters swimmers. It’s open until 31 January so…

Regular readers will have noticed that we’re sometimes a little fussy at H2Open about our choice of words. We don’t…