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Listen here Sarah Giles lives and swims in open water in Oxford. She is Programme Development Manager at SportExcel UK, a sports...

Swimmingpod podcast here There is a strong tradition of outdoor swimming in Oxford, probably many traditions. And many notable people...

Darrin Roles started the Lock to Lock a single swim event in the Thames in 2015, and it has grown into a series of events and distances....

This podcast is about my practice of swimming to work, the last of which took place in 2022 when I retired. A swim to work for me was 8...

Jeremy Wellingham and Mike Harris are both open water swimmers, Jeremy in Oxfordshire, Mike in London. Both swim nationally and...

This podcast is about swims in the Shire - Tolkien’s Oxfordshire. I have no idea if Tolkien was a swimmer, but there is plenty of...

Emma Gibbard and Carl Tysom are both passionate about open water swimming, and are both involved in overseeing swimming at the West...

Five years ago I undertook 65 swims in different places at the age of 65 years. I have written a book about it, entitled ‘Memories like...

Helen Edwards is an ecological artist, dancer, and swimmer. I am with her at her solo exhibition at Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre,...

It’s not clear if life begins at 70, but life does start in water. The bible says three score and ten, 70 years, so from now on, life is...

Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddle were undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. They both took up wild swimming together while...

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...

So many cold water swimmers are non-conformists, but who would have thought of it as a political act? Grace Wright-Arora carried out...

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...

The Wild Open Swim Blog is the organised work of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford...

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...

‘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...

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...

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

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....