Monday, 28 September 2020

The pre - Channel Swim essentials test run... or swim as it were!

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I would say that the worst time to have a kit or euipment malfunction is just before, or during a swim. Whether it’s costume, of which I hav...
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Monday, 14 September 2020

Alternative ways of rewarming after a cold swim - on a boat, in the middle of the English Channel...

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In the last 2 weeks it feels like Autumn has well and truly arrived. The water in the lake has become cooler. In reality it has dropped only...
Saturday, 5 September 2020

Whitby training sea swimming #2/3

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  Two weeks ago - The swim buddy and I returned to Whitby for our second swim. I were all too aware that part of our training needed to incl...
Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Whitby Training Camp - organised by the swim buddy.

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With only 2 months till our Channel relay window we decided that we really needed to get some sea swimming practice in. The swim buddy and I...
Thursday, 11 June 2020

My first post-lockdown swim

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67 days between swims felt just too long. The only saving grace was that my Channel Relay swim, scheduled for w/c 27 th  May, had been postp...
Sunday, 17 May 2020

Lockdown swim training - in the absence of my own private pool, lake or pond.

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I’ve almost lost count of the weeks since we went into lockdown, and after spending the first few days in a complete panic about not being...
Friday, 6 March 2020

Pool Water Woman - for the time being...

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At the end of the summer swim season last year, swim buddy and I were chatting about ultimate swim challenges we would love to do. She als...
Friday, 22 November 2019

Road Trip to Thames Lido

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Back in May I suggested to swim buddy that it would be lovely to celebrate her forthcoming VERY LARGE birthday by going on a swimming roa...