65@65

LXV - 65@65

4 days ago
4 min

SWIMMINGPOD – KRISTIE WALLER AND JUDY PEARSALL, WOMEN WHO SWIM TOGETHER

It is November, and Lockdown Two, which thankfully permits outdoor swimming as long as it is not at a venue. Hardwick Lake is closed for ...

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SWIMMINGPOD – SWIM THE THAMES, WITH SEF PENROSE, JEREMY WELLINGHAM, CHRIS DALTON AND SHARON CURTIS

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Nov 12
5 min

SWIMMINGPOD – SWIM THE THAMES, WITH SEF PENROSE, JEREMY WELLINGHAM, CHRIS DALTON AND SHARON CURTIS

Most good ideas start with a conversation. This particular idea started with Sef and Jeremy mulling over swimming into the River Thames. ...

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SMOKE ON THE WATER - LOCKDOWN TWO AND COVID SWIMMING

LXVswim

Nov 7
8 min

SMOKE ON THE WATER - LOCKDOWN TWO AND COVID SWIMMING

It is a season of forgotten holidays, moving toward Lockdown Two in the UK. This morning I saw Sarah walk past my front door in the villa...

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SWIMMINGPOD - HELEN EDWARDS AND DIP-A-DAY ALL YEAR ROUND SWIMMING

LXVswim

Nov 2
3 min

SWIMMINGPOD - HELEN EDWARDS AND DIP-A-DAY ALL YEAR ROUND SWIMMING

Woman for All Seasons Helen Edwards has insinuated herself on my psyche almost by stealth. I honestly can’t remember when I met her first...

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SWIMMINGPOD - WINTER SWIMMING WITH CRAIG HOLMES AND JO JONES

LXVswim

Oct 26
3 min

SWIMMINGPOD - WINTER SWIMMING WITH CRAIG HOLMES AND JO JONES

I first met Craig at a Dodo swim in Oxford – that is December Oxford Dip Outdoors. Or Dip Outdoors December Oxford. Or December Outdoors ...

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SWIMMINGPOD - DESPERATELY SEEKING PAULINE BARKER

LXVswim

Oct 19
3 min

SWIMMINGPOD - DESPERATELY SEEKING PAULINE BARKER

Nick, at the Serpentine Swimming Club, wanted to introduce me to Pauline Barker last year. I couldn’t make it to London that day, and tha...

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SWIMMINGPOD – A PODCAST SERIES FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO SWIM OUTDOORS

LXVswim

Oct 18
6 min

SWIMMINGPOD – A PODCAST SERIES FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO SWIM OUTDOORS

The running head for ‘swimmingpod’ is ‘a podcast series for people who like to swim (outdoors)’ - a deliberate cheese-take on the prolif...

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LXVswim

Oct 12
3 min

POSTSCRIPT TO 65@65

So in the end, the 65 swims at 65 years of age started with breakfast and finished with lunch, with burrata in both cases. This postscrip...

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LXVswim

Oct 1
9 min

65@65 THE LAST SWIM – ON CHESIL BEACH

Heisenberg was OK with uncertainty, and Schrodinger had a cat. That is how I remember high-school physics - it is a good job my physics s...

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65@65 SWIM #64 – FARLEIGH AND DISTRICT RIVER SWIMMING CLUB

LXVswim

Sep 20
8 min

65@65 SWIM #64 – FARLEIGH AND DISTRICT RIVER SWIMMING CLUB

“Are we nearly there yet?” – so spoke the look on Pauline’s face as we were getting closer, but not quite there, in rural Somerset, with ...

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LXVswim

Sep 13
4 min

65@65 SWIM #63 - COOKHAM, RIVER THAMES

When I took part in Swim the Thames, Cookham featured twice – the kilometer or so from Bourne End to Cookham, then a kilometer or so down...

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65@65 SWIM #62 - CLEVEDON MARINE LAKE, NEAR BRISTOL

LXVswim

Sep 8
6 min

65@65 SWIM #62 - CLEVEDON MARINE LAKE, NEAR BRISTOL

‘I am the walrus… I am the walrus…’ kept circling in my mind on the way to Clevedon Marine Lake, across the other side of Bristol, on the...

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65@65 SWIM #61 - KEW BRIDGE TO HAMMERSMITH, THE RIVER THAMES IN LONDON

LXVswim

Sep 3
8 min

65@65 SWIM #61 - KEW BRIDGE TO HAMMERSMITH, THE RIVER THAMES IN LONDON

That’s life. C’est la vie. So das ist das leben. It amounts to the same thing, which Scottish poet Robert Burns summarised as “the best l...

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65@65 SWIM #60 - HAMPTON COURT, THE RIVER THAMES

LXVswim

Sep 1
5 min

65@65 SWIM #60 - HAMPTON COURT, THE RIVER THAMES

“As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise” – this Kinks song from my early adolescence, was running through my head. David ...

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65@65 SWIM #59 – CHIPPING NORTON LIDO, THE COTSWOLDS

LXVswim

Aug 26
6 min

65@65 SWIM #59 – CHIPPING NORTON LIDO, THE COTSWOLDS

There is a little London glamour attached to the modest, beautifully proportioned and very lovely lido at Chipping Norton. It was Jeremy’...

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65@65 SWIM #58 - ROYAL VICTORIA DOCKS, LONDON

LXVswim

Aug 22
5 min

65@65 SWIM #58 - ROYAL VICTORIA DOCKS, LONDON

This is the closest I will get to swimming in Paris this year –standing next to Seurat’s painting ‘The Bathers as Asnieres’. There are go...

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65@65 SWIM #57 – NEWNHAM RIVERSIDE CLUB, CAMBRIDGE

LXVswim

Aug 14
4 min

65@65 SWIM #57 – NEWNHAM RIVERSIDE CLUB, CAMBRIDGE

It felt like entering Narnia, the magical world created by C.S. Lewis. I was in Cambridge but brought Oxfordshire with me, such is the wa...

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65@65 SWIM #56 – RIVER EVENLODE AT CHARLBURY, OXFORDSHIRE

LXVswim

Aug 11
4 min

65@65 SWIM #56 – RIVER EVENLODE AT CHARLBURY, OXFORDSHIRE

Remember when? This question came to mind over and over, on the way to, during, and after the swim in the River Evenlode at Charlbury. Ch...

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65@65 SWIM #55 - THE THAMES AT MURDER CENTRAL (WALLINGFORD)

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Jul 16
5 min

65@65 SWIM #55 - THE THAMES AT MURDER CENTRAL (WALLINGFORD)

The weather was hot enough to want to murder someone. Early summer 2020 was the hottest on record for the UK, and after a day inside of l...

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LXVswim

Jul 3
4 min

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...

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