SWIMMINGPOD - RAMIN CYRUS, SWIMMING AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
Ramin Cyrus has swum a channel relay, the Thames Marathon at Henley and other big swims, all great achievements. Powerful achievements,...
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Oct 3, 20231 min
SWIMMINGPOD – PAUL ATHERTON, OUTDOOR SWIMMING AND CREATIVITY
Paul Atherton is a filmmaker and Londoner. He produced and directed The Ballet of Change , four short films that were projected onto...
LXVswim
Apr 23, 20234 min
SWIMMINGPOD - POOP POLLUTION POLITICS BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
The gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both...
LXVswim
Mar 10, 20232 min
SWIMMINGPOD – THE SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB AND THE INTERNATIONAL MARATHON SWIMMING HALL OF FAME
In May 2022, the Serpentine Swimming Club was inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame – IMSHOF in short. This is a...
LXVswim
Jan 2, 20234 min
I’M SORRY, SAY THAMES WATER, FOR RUINING YOUR SWIMS
I could feel it all over again this Christmas, the sense of deja-vu, of raw sewage running between my fingers and toes. The Oxford DODO...
LXVswim
Mar 13, 20223 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...
LXVswim
Nov 19, 20213 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...
LXVswim
Oct 15, 20212 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...
LXVswim
Oct 8, 20211 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,...
LXVswim
Aug 22, 20205 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...
LXVswim
Mar 20, 20202 min
65@65 SWIM #50 TOOTING BEC LIDO
South London Swimming Club are framed as the opposition by the Serpentine Swimming Club, at least when it comes to the annual races...
LXVswim
Feb 24, 20204 min
CHRISTO AT THE SERPENTINE, SUMMER NOSTALGIA
Summer nostalgia, 2018, when the sun shone and the Mastaba glistened in the morning light. This was the Serpentine Swimming Club...
LXVswim
Feb 21, 20204 min
65@65 SWIM #44 SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB, HYDE PARK, LONDON
“Ser-pen-ti- ine, my Serpenti-ine, Ser-pen-ti- ine, my Serpenti-ine”… A musical fruit-loop from the Serpentine Swimming Club Christmas...
LXVswim
Jan 24, 20204 min
65@65 SWIM #41 PHISH, PARLIAMENT HILL LIDO, LONDON
PHISH time – the now almost-annual event of the winter swimming brother-and-sister-hood of the cold water. We arrived in London in good...
LXVswim
Jan 20, 20206 min
65@65 SWIM #40 HAMPSTEAD HEATH MENS POND
The day started with two auspicious moments. The first was seeing the sun rising from the infinite mist on the horizon of the M40 on the...
LXVswim
Oct 31, 20191 min
65@65 SWIM #21, THE THAMES, FROM TRUSS'S ISLAND TO CHERTSEY BRIDGE
This felt very much like the last longer one before winter sets in. Thanks to Juliet and Hywel - lovely company, lovely day - the sun...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20191 min
65@65 SWIM #20, RIVER THAMES, FROM RUNNYMEDE TO TRUSS'S ISLAND
I have swum a number of times at Runnymede, with the Swim The Thames Group, and across the years when two of my children went to Royal...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20191 min
65@65 SWIM #19 - SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN THE THAMES
Port Meadow, Oxford in the morning, Hammersmith in the evening. Changing by the dodo tree in Oxford and watching the sun rise at water...
LXVswim
Oct 21, 20191 min
65@65 SWIM #13 GUILDFORD LIDO
An evening swim, an invite from Hywel and Juliet to go with the Surrey open waters swimmers, followed by the movies 'Against the Tides',...
LXVswim
Oct 17, 20191 min
65@65 SWIM #11 TEDDINGTON TO RICHMOND
Thames again, Teddington to Richmond. Swim the Thames Group Missing Link Swim. Several years ago, a group of kindred souls swam the...
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