LXVSWIM

Apr 23, 20234 min read

SWIMMINGPOD - POOP POLLUTION POLITICS BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK

The gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both...

Jan 2, 20234 min read

I’M SORRY, SAY THAMES WATER, FOR RUINING YOUR SWIMS

I could feel it all over again this Christmas, the sense of deja-vu, of raw sewage running between my fingers and toes. The Oxford DODO...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nov 19, 20213 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – DUNCAN GOODHEW, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, & THE STATE OF SWIMMING IN THE UK

What do Olympic Gold and Bronze medal winner Duncan Goodhew, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, and Captain Matthew Webb, the first...

Jul 19, 20214 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – KELP FOREST DIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH BEN COUSINS

Ben Cousins is 72 years old and is passionate about the ocean – he has surfed it, swum in it, and now free dives in and around the ocean...