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The OSS Dart 10k 2017 *Warning* This swim may lead to an Outdoor Swimming Addiction…
The Outdoor Swimming Society’s Dart 10k is in its eighth year; growing from 200 swimmers on a single day in…
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Winter swimming in St Petersburg
Roman Karkachev reports on the return of ice swimming to the Peter and Paul Fortress From the 1960s to the…
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So, how did I get here?
“Hello, my name is Stephen and I’m attempting a relay English Channel swim this summer to raise funds for Aspire.”…
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Swimming the Solent for Aspire
“He really needs to be getting a move on!” The tone in the boat was getting a little tense as…
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My Swim Story – Christopher Smith
Ten years ago Christopher Smith couldn’t swim. He is now a qualified sports therapist and plans to swim the Solent…
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The importance of being acclimatised
‘To lose one swimmer may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 30 looks like carelessness.’ Ok, so they weren’t…
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Swimming, fast and slow
Swimming performance is a strange thing. If you’re relatively new to the sport you will almost certainly be able to increase…
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Swim and Eat at the new Thames Lido in Reading
Outdoor swimming frequently involves changing under a towel in a muddy car park before slipping into cold murky water followed…
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How To Make Great DIY Swim Film – Top Tips #1
How do you make a great DIY swim film? In the first of six blogs, BAFTA-nominated director Stefan Stuckert of…
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Rottnest Channel Swim
The 19.7km Rottnest Channel Swim is one of Australia’s most iconic open water events. Ryan Duell braved strong currents and…
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Strait of Juan de Fuca
Bert Thomas accepted the challenge of marathon swimming and inspired a tradition that continues today By Elaine K Howley The…
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Reviving a Victorian swimming club
Fed up with the nine-to-five grind, Emma Hardy quit her day job and is now reviving a Victorian swimming club…
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To breathe or not to breathe, that is the question
Tom Kean is a co-founder of Selkie Swim Co and a regular masters swimmer. He’s been experimenting with a new breathing…
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“I must have looked so odd with a tree attached to my trunks”
Fresh from completing an Olympic distance triathlon carrying a 100lb tree, Ross Edgley tries to convince us he isn’t barking…
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You don’t need to swim an Ice Mile to be a real outdoor swimmer
Image: cold water swimmers having fun at Tooting Bec lido No. Definitely not. Not even tempted. Forget about it. I’m…
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How To Make Great DIY Swim Films – Top Tips #5
Week Five – Editing Stefan Stuckert is the BAFTA-nominated director of ‘Oceans 7’, a feature documentary about the open-sea swimmer…
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How and why do ex-Olympic open water swimmers still train?
We caught up with Keri-anne Payne and David Carry to chat about life and swimming now they’ve retired from elite…
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Getting along swimmingly
Ella Foote meets Zen seeker Tessa Wardley, who says wild swimming is the perfect medium through which to practise mindfulness…
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View from the Water – It’s not a case of ‘out with the old, in with the new’
In our six years as H2Open Magazine, and now as Outdoor Swimmer, we’ve always been guided by the principle that…
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Worbarrow Bay, Dorset
It was rather an impulsive statement, sat on golden sands at the tail end of last summer: “I’m going to…
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Heatwave Hijinks
The recent record breaking heatwave was great for outdoor swimmers celebrating the summer solstice in style. However, with the extreme…
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Club of the Month – Just Swim
Just Swim was founded by Emma Christison and Katarina Weller in June 2013. We swim all year round at Southbourne,…
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Black Adder moments
As a youth, I loved Black Adder. In the 1980s, if you wanted to watch something on TV, you had…
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Is it safe to swim in the River Thames?
The Thames has a reputation as a dirty river. It’s not totally undeserved. I took part in the notorious Hampton…
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This month we swam with… #Chester Frosties
Simon Griffiths took a dip in the Dee with an outdoor swimming group from the North West It started, as…
