So, we know it’s not my first time, in fact as well the ‘events’ that I’ve previously posted about, I’ve experienced a couple of other wild swimming excursions. I spent a summer working in California as a student, and after…
So this Sunday I thought I’d really test all this noise about the benefits of open water swimming for real. It was the morning after the night before, and I was NOT feeling like getting up and jumping in a…
2 years on from the tri stress, and 3 years after I first randomly decided to jump in a large body of water for no apparent reason during a family holiday, I happened upon an event called ‘The Great Scottish…
A year after my ‘Swanage Sea Swim’ back in 2013 (note I am now giving it an upper case title, like it’s an accredited Olympic event) I tried a triathlon. Worth it for the nose clip alone. But hey –…
Roll on a few years…Early February, and it’s snowing. Such a shame there are no venues available…or so I thought. I happened to have a chance conversation with a friend who advised that a local lido stayed open in the…
At a New Year’s party over a good few glasses of prosecco I got chatting to a lovely local, (yes Jacquie M – that’s you) who I didn’t know well, but what I did know was that she was a…
In 2013 whilst on holiday with my family in Swanage in Dorset, I happened upon an advert for a sea swim. Always having a tendency towards the impulsive, I merrily signed up – just the 500m though, not 1km. On…
Well quite frankly, Christopher McDougall has a LOT to answer for. Well him, and a lovely local lady called Jacquie Moulder but we’ll come on to her later… I can’t remember who introduced me to the book ‘Born to Run’,…
She used to save a seat for me on the coach. Every day. She didn’t really speak very much, but every morning as I got on the coach, the big brown beautiful eyes would seek me out, and she would…