SWIMMINGPOD - STANLEY’S 70TH BIRTHDAY SWIM PARTY
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...
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LXVswim
Jun 301 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DIVING FREE, DIVING DEEP, WITH SAM MILLWARD
Sam Millward is a scuba and freediving instructor, fascinated by the mental, physical and experiential benefits that all forms of...
LXVswim
Apr 191 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - LEVEL WATER CEO IAN THWAITES
A rising tide lifts all boats (and swimmers). Level water means equal rights. In the case of Ian Thwaites and the charity Level Water,...
LXVswim
Mar 231 min read
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,...
LXVswim
Dec 13, 20231 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – WILD SWIMMING AND STUDENT LIFE, WITH VERA PROKOPIEVA AND ANNIE LIDDELL
Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddle were undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. They both took up wild swimming together while...
LXVswim
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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
Aug 19, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – KAREN THROSBY AND MARATHON SWIMMING
Karen Throsby is a swimmer and a sociologist – Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. Her intellectual credentials are...
LXVswim
Mar 10, 20232 min read
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
Dec 21, 20222 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - A WINTER SWIMMING BRIEFING, GIVEN BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK, FRAMED BY JEREMY WELLINGHAM
Cometh December, cometh the DODO Swim, in Oxford, at Port Meadow. From the Dodo Tree, now reduced to a stump after being struck by...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20221 min read
MOON-SWIMMING AND SWIMMING IN MOONLIGHT BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
If you haven’t already swum outdoors in full moonlight, you must. It is one of life’s priceless un-buyable treasures. There are twelve...
LXVswim
Sep 9, 20222 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – JULIET TURNBULL AND ‘OPEN WATER – SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE’
It is September, and time to take stock of the summer season of open water swimming. While countless thousands have enjoyed the water...
LXVswim
Aug 18, 20221 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - WILD OPEN SWIM, WITH KATH FOTHERINGHAM, FIONA UNDRILL AND DARRIN ROLES
The Wild Open Swim Blog is the organised work of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford...
LXVswim
Jun 2, 20221 min read
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...
LXVswim
Jan 20, 20226 min read
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...
LXVswim
Jan 4, 20226 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
Dec 24, 20216 min read
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...
LXVswim
Sep 27, 20213 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
Jul 19, 20214 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
Jun 4, 20215 min read
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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