A different way to spent 24 hours On so many levels this was a truly enlightening and inspiring swim for swimmer and support folk alike! Going back a while, I noticed the entries to this event had opened and I was discussing doing it as a solo affair. Life got in the way, I was […]

Over training! Physical or mental? Part 2 Now that the Hippo Pod have started a new chapter by moving from the Idyllic river location and into the Forest for the foreseeable future. No I am not being put out to pasture just yet! I can do a follow up to the hugely popular post of […]

Over-training and the pitfalls of it with regards to Endurance events Recently and in the distant past I have come across a fair few English, and other Channel aspirants who, coming up to their year of opportunity to gain the coveted title of being a Channel swimmer, are getting very despondent with their efforts to […]

It has been an interesting start to the year and this year, I did things a bit differently and booked a challenge very early on in the year. Yes, I opted to swim at PHISH this year – in the endurance event. Ingredients needed for this: 1- 1 x 61 m pool with a steel […]

Coldest dip yet! An interesting week with a bit of swimming done, not as much as I would have liked but good all the same. Slowly eating away at my 430 km target for the year – now only 422 to go before the 1st December. So on a grey morning in West London, 5 […]

Lets Get Challenged!! A new day and a new year, and already the year is getting off to an interesting start. As it is a new year, there is only one thing for it, a New Challenge! 2016 was a great year in a lot of aspects of my life but this blog focuses on […]

Steve Wand Memorial The morning arrived and I was up with the sparrows after  a pretty late evening chatting with the Slimhippo. She has this innate ability to bring up a discussion topic which I call “it’s not about the Nail!” – one which is not going to be solved by a short few words […]

Just under a week to go to the big day The original Group and Steve at their 100x 100m swim at Charlton Lido. It has come around really quickly since Mark Invited a select group of swimmers from around the country to Honour Steve in this momentous event. Amoung the swimmers are some pretty heavy […]

A lost week Ahem!! Have not ventured into the water for the last week. No real excuse, laziness just got the better of me. No matter how hard I tried to convince myself to get into the pool on the way past the gym, my car – and laziness – just seemed to get the […]

Winter is coming fast The days are getting shorter, the nights are now pretty long, and training is carrying on but plodding up and down a 25m chlorine pit that is heated to 26 degrees can become a bit mind – numbing (in the boring sense of the word). Cruising up and down an outdoor […]