I (Manda) can’t remember when I first heard about the ‘Ocean’s Seven‘ challenge but I remember meeting my first Ocean Seven’r in NYC as we had none other than Darren Miller as our observer for our Manhattan swim in 2012. Darren told us stories about his swims and it inspired me but scared me in […]
MoreFiona did the Great North swim in Windermere this year and seeing as we have never done the ‘North’ event of the Great Swim series we asked her to write us a guest blog. ps cheery bakewell cocktails… Yum or Yuk? I’m writing this from the heavenly super king size bed in our guest house […]
MoreIf you are a keen open water swimmer then the weekend of 3rd / 4th September 2016 has riches in abundance to offer in the UK. 1. You could swim the 5.25 miles from one end of Lake Coniston to the other in the Lake District. (Saturday) http://www.chillswim.com/the-swims/coniston-end-to-end 2. Or you could swim 10k down […]
MoreNow that the nights are drawing in and the weather (not to mention the lido) is getting colder we thought it was time to reflect on this summer’s outdoor swimming season. Over the last few years we have been focused on one big summer swim (2012 Manhattan, 2013 Zurich and 2014 Windermere) but this summer, […]
MoreThese are ones we do ourselves when training for longer swims so add to as and when we do new ones. See also: 2.5 sets, 3k sets, 4k sets and if you are after more inspiration the Tooting Bec Lido sets can be altered to suit pool length/distance required. SET A 500 SWIM 400 PULL 300 DRILL 200 6 […]
MoreOriginally Katie and I (Manda) had decided that after Zurich we wanted to do something long in 2014 but not AS long. Not so long that we would be required to lose every weekend to the water from January to the swim. We had pretty much dedicated the whole first 8 months of 2013 to training for […]
MoreAfter I (Manda) did the Windermere 2 way relay a couple of people mentioned to me that they were interested in doing a Windermere swim and I said I would be keen to do a solo after the 2 way relay so would be something to consider for next year. However, next year wasn’t enough […]
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