SWIMMINGPOD - WEST OXFORDSHIRE SWIMMING LAKE WITH EMMA GIBBARD AND CARL TYSOM
Emma Gibbard and Carl Tysom are both passionate about open water swimming, and are both involved in overseeing swimming at the West...
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LXVswim
Sep 51 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - STANLEY ULIJASZEK, MEMORIES LIKE WATER AND THE FIRST OF 65 SWIMS
Five years ago I undertook 65 swims in different places at the age of 65 years. I have written a book about it, entitled ‘Memories like...
LXVswim
Jul 231 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - STANLEY’S 70TH BIRTHDAY SWIM PARTY
It’s not clear if life begins at 70, but life does start in water. The bible says three score and ten, 70 years, so from now on, life is...
LXVswim
Jun 301 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DIVING FREE, DIVING DEEP, WITH SAM MILLWARD
Sam Millward is a scuba and freediving instructor, fascinated by the mental, physical and experiential benefits that all forms of...
LXVswim
Apr 191 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - LEVEL WATER CEO IAN THWAITES
A rising tide lifts all boats (and swimmers). Level water means equal rights. In the case of Ian Thwaites and the charity Level Water,...
LXVswim
Mar 231 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - RAMIN CYRUS, SWIMMING AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
Ramin Cyrus has swum a channel relay, the Thames Marathon at Henley and other big swims, all great achievements. Powerful achievements,...
LXVswim
Dec 13, 20231 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – WILD SWIMMING AND STUDENT LIFE, WITH VERA PROKOPIEVA AND ANNIE LIDDELL
Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddle were undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. They both took up wild swimming together while...
LXVswim
Aug 19, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – KAREN THROSBY AND MARATHON SWIMMING
Karen Throsby is a swimmer and a sociologist – Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. Her intellectual credentials are...
LXVswim
Jul 3, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – GEORGIE MILNER ON SWIMMING AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Access is an important issue everywhere. People of all creeds and backgrounds swim. A few months before recording this podcast I was in...
LXVswim
Jan 13, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – GRACE WRIGHT-ARORA, AND COLD WATER SWIMMING AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
So many cold water swimmers are non-conformists, but who would have thought of it as a political act? Grace Wright-Arora carried out...
LXVswim
Dec 21, 20222 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - A WINTER SWIMMING BRIEFING, GIVEN BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK, FRAMED BY JEREMY WELLINGHAM
Cometh December, cometh the DODO Swim, in Oxford, at Port Meadow. From the Dodo Tree, now reduced to a stump after being struck by...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20221 min read
MOON-SWIMMING AND SWIMMING IN MOONLIGHT BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
If you haven’t already swum outdoors in full moonlight, you must. It is one of life’s priceless un-buyable treasures. There are twelve...
LXVswim
Sep 9, 20222 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – JULIET TURNBULL AND ‘OPEN WATER – SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE’
It is September, and time to take stock of the summer season of open water swimming. While countless thousands have enjoyed the water...
LXVswim
Aug 18, 20221 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - WILD OPEN SWIM, WITH KATH FOTHERINGHAM, FIONA UNDRILL AND DARRIN ROLES
The Wild Open Swim Blog is the organised work of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford...
LXVswim
Jul 13, 20222 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - TESS AND JUDY BIRD, SWIMMING IN CONNECTICUT
Conversations that flow through the water, from mother to daughter and back again, almost dream-like. In this podcast I am in...
LXVswim
Jun 2, 20221 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – ADAPTIVE ATHLETE SOPHIE ETHERIDGE AND THE TWO-WAY WINDERMERE
I am truly humbled by Sophie Etheridge, and will never ever complain again about the aches and pains in my joints. Sophie is an adaptive...
LXVswim
Apr 18, 20225 min read
COPENHAGEN SWIMMING AND TOGS FOR A PANDEMIC RECYCLED
It somehow feels right to leave my stripy togs in Copenhagen to be recycled. On the last day here, after nearly three years away, I put...
LXVswim
Mar 13, 20223 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – TOM ELLIOTT AND RICHARD FLINT AND SWIM-FILM 'AS YOU LAKE IT'
Tom Elliott and Danny Longman swam all the lakes of the Lake District in four days, and Richard Flint filmed them. Sounds simple, but of...
LXVswim
Feb 14, 20223 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DYLAN FRIEDMANN AND A YEAR OF SWIMMING AND DIPPING DAILY IN LAKE ONTARIO, CANADA
If you want to find Dylan Friedmann on a cold, cold, Toronto winter’s morning, it’s quite easy in some ways. First get up before dawn,...
LXVswim
Jan 4, 20226 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - JOHN VON DUFFEL AND JAMES NORTON ON CHARLES SPRAWSON’S ‘HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR'
Do you swim crawl? Do you swim to music in your head? If so, try swimming to Glenn Miller’s ‘In the Mood’. Not easy – it’s either too...
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