LXVSWIM

Sep 91 min read

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...