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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,...
LXVswim
Feb 14, 20223 min read


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...
LXVswim
Jan 4, 20226 min read


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
Nov 19, 20213 min read


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 15, 20212 min read


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...
LXVswim
Sep 27, 20213 min read


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...
LXVswim
Jul 19, 20214 min read


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...
LXVswim
May 17, 20214 min read


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...
LXVswim
May 7, 20216 min read


65@65 SWIM #22 LIDO DI VENEZIA
Since I am including the Lido in my list of permissible places to do ‘65@65’, the opportunity to do ‘65@65’ at the world’s very first...
LXVswim
Nov 4, 20192 min read


PACIFIC ISLANDS SWIMMING
Sometimes when there is no common or local knowledge about where to swim in a place I haven't been, I use Google Earth to scope possible...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20191 min read


65@65 SWIM #1 WEST OXFORDSHIRE SAILING CLUB 'SWAN LAKE'
Birthday 3rd July - 65 at last! A leisurely birthday loop with Pauline, followed by breakfast on the deck Read more
LXVswim
Sep 30, 20191 min read
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