LXVSWIM

Jan 184 min read

SWIMMINGPOD - TOM KEARNEY, ON TRANSFORMATION AND SWIMMING AT HAMPSTEAD HEATH MEN'S POND

Tom Kearney on the far left - Tom is a Hampstead resident of over a quarter of a century and year-round swimmer at the nearby Ponds. He...

SWIMMINGPOD – STANLEY ULIJASZEK AND LONDON OPEN WATER SWIMMING

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Dec 30, 20241 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – STANLEY ULIJASZEK AND LONDON OPEN WATER SWIMMING

Stanley Ulijaszek at the Hampstead Men's Pond Listen to the podcast This podcast is about open water swimming in London – given how urban...

SWIMMINGPOD – SARAH GILES, ON OXFORD, SWIMMING AND INEQUALITY

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Dec 23, 20241 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – SARAH GILES, ON OXFORD, SWIMMING AND INEQUALITY

Listen here Sarah Giles lives and swims in open water in Oxford. She is Programme Development Manager at SportExcel UK, a sports...

SWIMMINGPOD - RAMIN CYRUS, SWIMMING AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

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Mar 23, 20241 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,...

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

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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...

SWIMMINGPOD – ADAPTIVE ATHLETE SOPHIE ETHERIDGE AND THE TWO-WAY WINDERMERE

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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...

SWIMMINGPOD – TOM ELLIOTT AND RICHARD FLINT AND SWIM-FILM 'AS YOU LAKE IT'

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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...

SWIMMINGPOD - JOHN VON DUFFEL AND JAMES NORTON ON CHARLES SPRAWSON’S ‘HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR'

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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...

SWIMMINGPOD – SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS AND ME – A ‘NIGHT AT THE OPERA’, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK

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Oct 15, 20212 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS AND ME – A ‘NIGHT AT THE OPERA’, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK

I am back in the water, not without anxiety I have to say. The experience of leptospirosis was a bit of a drama for me, and I don’t think...

SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS, AND ME, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK

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Oct 8, 20211 min read

SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS, AND ME, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK

If you are an outdoor or open water swimmer you probably don’t want to know too much about leptospirosis, or its more extreme form,...

SWIMMINGPOD – ANETTE FRISCH AND MINDFUL SWIMMING

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Sep 27, 20213 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – ANETTE FRISCH AND MINDFUL SWIMMING

I talked with Anette Frisch about life, work, swimming, the future and the past and it became a podcast. We recorded it when the COVID-19...

SWIMMINGPOD – BERLIN SWIMMING SPREE - CAITLIN KRAEMER AND SWIMMING IN THE CITY

LXVswim

Jun 4, 20215 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – BERLIN SWIMMING SPREE - CAITLIN KRAEMER AND SWIMMING IN THE CITY

Berlin is many cities at once, all in progress. Caitlin Kraemer knows many of these cities, but the one she is interested in from an...

SWIMMINGPOD –WITH SANDY BURNETT, MUSICIAN AND BROADCASTER, ON WATER, MUSIC, MUSIC AND WATER

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Jan 22, 20214 min read

SWIMMINGPOD –WITH SANDY BURNETT, MUSICIAN AND BROADCASTER, ON WATER, MUSIC, MUSIC AND WATER

Sandy Burnett is a Man of Music, especially amphibious in classical waters and jazz streams of consciousness. He is one of the most...

LXVswim

Jul 3, 20204 min read

65@65 #54 - TWO LAKES WOSC

Of the most regular, everyday swimming places for me, ever since I realised that I didn’t need to drive hours to the coast to get a ‘good...

65@65 UNLOCKED – MID-SUMMER MORNING SWIM #53, DEVIL’S QUOITS, OXFORDSHIRE

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Jun 21, 20204 min read

65@65 UNLOCKED – MID-SUMMER MORNING SWIM #53, DEVIL’S QUOITS, OXFORDSHIRE

As with lock down, there is not a right time to unlock. An epidemiologist at Harvard recently compared epidemics with house fires –the...

LOCK DOWN SWIMMING – BUBBLES ON THE WATER

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Jun 16, 20204 min read

LOCK DOWN SWIMMING – BUBBLES ON THE WATER

There are more bubbles on the water than ever before. This is a good thing – under Covid-19 guidelines, there is a new verb – ‘to...

LXVswim

Oct 30, 20191 min read

PACIFIC ISLANDS SWIMMING

Sometimes when there is no common or local knowledge about where to swim in a place I haven't been, I use Google Earth to scope possible...

65@65 SWIM #1 WEST OXFORDSHIRE SAILING CLUB 'SWAN LAKE'

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Sep 30, 20191 min read

65@65 SWIM #1 WEST OXFORDSHIRE SAILING CLUB 'SWAN LAKE'

Birthday 3rd July - 65 at last! A leisurely birthday loop with Pauline, followed by breakfast on the deck Read more