Cold water has changed my life
I love the kick, the buzzing feeling that awakens the whole nervous system and all the senses I love the “I am alive feeling” I get.
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Wild Open Swim
Inspirations from swimming through the seasons
The Wild Open Swim Blog is a celebration of open water swimming all year and the photographs, words and artwork that it has inspired.
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Darrin Roles
- Mar 13, 2021
- 4 min
For whom the drop calls…
The uninitiated, not knowing this beast, may not appreciate the urgency with which cold hands dress themselves. The drop waits for no-one.
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Stanley Ulijaszek
- Feb 27, 2021
- 4 min
Seasoned winter swimming
Winter swimming is one of the most humbling things you can do, because you can’t succeed if you try to fight the coldness of the water.
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Darrin Roles
- Jan 30, 2021
- 12 min
Channel your energy
Looking to the other end of a swimming pool can be daunting for some, especially if you have just started swimming. Contemplating a mile...
831 views
Emma Hallmark
- Dec 19, 2020
- 3 min
The creative flow
For as long as I can remember, I have had a deep connection with water – in any form. Something about it draws me close to it,...
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Shona
- Dec 5, 2020
- 3 min
The joy of swimming
Swimming is my joy. It is the time when I feel every bit of my body, and enjoy it in a way that is lost to me when I am on dry land.
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Darrin Roles
- Nov 21, 2020
- 3 min
The heart of the matter
What I feel is taking place in these now frequented open-water swimming spots is not just a connection to the environment but also to each o
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Darrin Roles
- Nov 6, 2020
- 5 min
Last swim before lockdown .2
“Our last swim,” falls from the lips, muted by what lay ahead in the cold temperatures just yards from the muddy wet cold banks.
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Fiona Undrill
- Oct 22, 2020
- 6 min
Cold water & fast currents
We all respond differently to cold water and if you’re new to cold water swimming, its good to get informed.
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Darrin Roles
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
The way of cold water
The internal journey one feels whilst in cold water can be described as very dramatic. And yet the idea is to be completely calm with yourse
108 views
Darrin Roles
- Oct 8, 2020
- 8 min
Fear and freedom
Three open water swimmers reveal their primal fears in the water...
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Darrin Roles
- Jun 11, 2020
- 5 min
Benefits of cold-water swimming: the facts part 1
Cold-water swimming is good for mental health
This is perhaps the most researched and the most commonly cited benefit to cold-water swimming
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Alan Scott
- Apr 6, 2020
- 3 min
The Lock to Lock Swim-Run experience
The Lock to Lock course, set deep in the Oxfordshire countryside is typically British
272 views
Fiona Undrill
- Mar 14, 2020
- 2 min
Clawing back to warmth
Getting changed to swim in the rain… on days like this, we’re here for the challenge. There really is nothing else that we do in the rest...
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Fiona Undrill
- Mar 14, 2020
- 3 min
Cold water swimming: the logical choice
The year 2020 was just eleven hours old and I was walking with a friend. I told her I’d been river-swimming a couple of days before, and...
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Fiona Undrill
- Feb 22, 2020
- 3 min
The Real Deal
Since October last year, greeted by a confused head-shake of a welcome from the lock-keeper, a neoprene-clad group of us have met up one...
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Fiona Undrill
- Feb 22, 2020
- 1 min
No room in the river
There’s no room in the ground for the rain. There’s no room in the river. The water has spilled out across the land and before us, lies...
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