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    SWIMMINGPOD – ADAPTIVE ATHLETE SOPHIE ETHERIDGE AND THE TWO-WAY WINDERMERE
    LXVswim
    • Jun 2
    • 1 min

    SWIMMINGPOD – ADAPTIVE ATHLETE SOPHIE ETHERIDGE AND THE TWO-WAY WINDERMERE

    I am truly humbled by Sophie Etheridge, and will never ever complain again about the aches and pains in my joints. Sophie is an adaptive...
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    COPENHAGEN SWIMMING AND TOGS FOR A PANDEMIC RECYCLED
    LXVswim
    • Apr 18
    • 5 min

    COPENHAGEN SWIMMING AND TOGS FOR A PANDEMIC RECYCLED

    It somehow feels right to leave my stripy togs in Copenhagen to be recycled. On the last day here, after nearly three years away, I put...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – TOM ELLIOTT AND RICHARD FLINT AND SWIM-FILM 'AS YOU LAKE IT'
    LXVswim
    • Mar 13
    • 3 min

    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...
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    SWIMMINGPOD - DYLAN FRIEDMANN AND A YEAR OF SWIMMING AND DIPPING DAILY IN LAKE ONTARIO, CANADA
    LXVswim
    • Feb 14
    • 3 min

    SWIMMINGPOD - DYLAN FRIEDMANN AND A YEAR OF SWIMMING AND DIPPING DAILY IN LAKE ONTARIO, CANADA

    If you want to find Dylan Friedmann on a cold, cold, Toronto winter’s morning, it’s quite easy in some ways. First get up before dawn,...
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    THE SECOND GREAT STINK? SWIMMING RIVERS IN A MESS
    LXVswim
    • Jan 20
    • 6 min

    THE SECOND GREAT STINK? SWIMMING RIVERS IN A MESS

    ‘I can feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes’ – ‘The water’s all around me, and so the feeling grows…’ Waking up from a dream, me...
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    SWIMMINGPOD - JOHN VON DUFFEL AND JAMES NORTON ON CHARLES SPRAWSON’S ‘HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR'
    LXVswim
    • Jan 4
    • 6 min

    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...
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    CHRISTMAS SWIMMING AND RITUAL – ON A TALK BY AUTHOR MADELEINE BUNTING
    LXVswim
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 6 min

    CHRISTMAS SWIMMING AND RITUAL – ON A TALK BY AUTHOR MADELEINE BUNTING

    I saw three swimmers go swimming by On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; I saw three swimmers go swimming by On Christmas Day in the...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – DUNCAN GOODHEW, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST,  & THE STATE OF SWIMMING IN THE UK
    LXVswim
    • Nov 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    SWIMMINGPOD – DUNCAN GOODHEW, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, & THE STATE OF SWIMMING IN THE UK

    What do Olympic Gold and Bronze medal winner Duncan Goodhew, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, and Captain Matthew Webb, the first...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS AND ME – A ‘NIGHT AT THE OPERA’, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
    LXVswim
    • Oct 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
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    SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS, AND ME, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
    LXVswim
    • Oct 8, 2021
    • 1 min

    SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS, AND ME, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK

    If you are an outdoor or open water swimmer you probably don’t want to know too much about leptospirosis, or its more extreme form,...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – ANETTE FRISCH AND MINDFUL SWIMMING
    LXVswim
    • Sep 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    SWIMMINGPOD – ANETTE FRISCH AND MINDFUL SWIMMING

    I talked with Anette Frisch about life, work, swimming, the future and the past and it became a podcast. We recorded it when the COVID-19...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – PAULINE BARKER AND THE POLAR BEAR (AND PENGUIN) CHALLENGE
    LXVswim
    • Aug 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    SWIMMINGPOD – PAULINE BARKER AND THE POLAR BEAR (AND PENGUIN) CHALLENGE

    It is late August, a time of year when summer is coming close to ending, and when I start to look forward to winter again. I used to...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – KELP FOREST DIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH BEN COUSINS
    LXVswim
    • Jul 19, 2021
    • 4 min

    SWIMMINGPOD – KELP FOREST DIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH BEN COUSINS

    Ben Cousins is 72 years old and is passionate about the ocean – he has surfed it, swum in it, and now free dives in and around the ocean...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – GRUMPY OLD SWIMMING, WITH JUDITH HOLDER
    LXVswim
    • Jun 28, 2021
    • 4 min

    SWIMMINGPOD – GRUMPY OLD SWIMMING, WITH JUDITH HOLDER

    A few years ago, a woman in a red dressing-gown turned up at the swimming area at Lake Hardwick, at eight in the morning. She took out a...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – BERLIN SWIMMING SPREE - CAITLIN KRAEMER AND SWIMMING IN THE CITY
    LXVswim
    • Jun 4, 2021
    • 5 min

    SWIMMINGPOD – BERLIN SWIMMING SPREE - CAITLIN KRAEMER AND SWIMMING IN THE CITY

    Berlin is many cities at once, all in progress. Caitlin Kraemer knows many of these cities, but the one she is interested in from an...
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    SWIMMINGPOD - ANNA DEACON AND ‘TAKING THE PLUNGE’
    LXVswim
    • May 17, 2021
    • 4 min

    SWIMMINGPOD - ANNA DEACON AND ‘TAKING THE PLUNGE’

    Anna Deacon is a photographer of considerable repute, her work appearing in a who’s who of UK journalism – The Times, The Guardian, The...
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    THE EYNSHAM WAVE AND SWIMMER ROSS MACKEN
    LXVswim
    • May 7, 2021
    • 6 min

    THE EYNSHAM WAVE AND SWIMMER ROSS MACKEN

    ‘Who knows what the future will bring?’ These words echoed through my mind as I cycled down to Eynsham Lock to swim with Julie this...
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    SWIMMINGPOD - DARRIN ROLES AND THE OXFORDSHIRE LOCK TO LOCK SWIM EVENTS
    LXVswim
    • Apr 30, 2021
    • 3 min

    SWIMMINGPOD - DARRIN ROLES AND THE OXFORDSHIRE LOCK TO LOCK SWIM EVENTS

    Darrin Roles is Eynsham man and boy. I have lived in Eynsham only since 1999, and have met him a number of times, increasingly so in the...
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    SWIMMINGPOD – JULIET TURNBULL SWIMMING AND SINGING THE THAMES
    LXVswim
    • Apr 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    SWIMMINGPOD – JULIET TURNBULL SWIMMING AND SINGING THE THAMES

    ‘She came in through the bathroom window’- the song welled up from the deep as I stumbled to the bathroom this morning, before any tea...
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    SWIMMING TOGETHER ALONE – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY SWIM 2021, WITH ANNA DEACON
    LXVswim
    • Apr 13, 2021
    • 3 min

    SWIMMING TOGETHER ALONE – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY SWIM 2021, WITH ANNA DEACON

    It was a great privilege to share a podcasting platform with the inspirational Anna Deacon just recently. Anna is a photographer of...
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