We are now well into March. Where has the time gone? With all the activity of the beginning of the year, I have been quietly sorting out stuff to do with my book and also look at starting out on the public speaking circuit. Recently, The Slimhippo and I took ourselves off to Africa to see my parents, get some much needed vitamin D and travel around a bit to…
The nights closing in, the lakes all but closed in the evenings, the rain flooding the rivers, the temperatures of the few lakes that are open dropping. Yes, It is the time of the year that some swimmers in the Northern hemispheres dread! Time to get back to the chlorine pit for the winter training! The heat, the chlorine, the bad lane etiquette, fighting for your patch of water. It…
Over this summer there has been a new series that is reaching our television screens. I knew it was happening ahead of time due to the fact that I am involved in a very small way in the Channel swimming world. and one of my clients is the Post production house produsing this series.The basic outline of the challenge was to take 12 non-swimming celebrities and in 12 weeks, get…
Bank Holiday weekend! Time for many things – celebrating the last of the summer holidays, braving the traffic, and – a celebratory Swim down Loch Lomond! As Mark Sheridan would say, ‘Ave it! It was in memory of the first ever solo swim of Loch Lomond by Commander Gerry Fosberg; so, not only an iconic day to remember as the first time the swim had been done, but also a…
This last weekend was, what is traditionally regarded as the start of the Season in the United Kingdom. Possibly one of the hardest challenges out there but a right of passage in the Open water swimming world. 2S4L (also known as To swim for Life) is an event put on by https://www.zwimevents.com/ Lesley and her team have done a truly fantastic job putting on this event year on year in…