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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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Ruth Rayner
Mar 3, 20234 min read
1000 consecutive days and more…
Ruth Rayner didn't set out to swim every day for for any particular length of time but somehow it became a way of coping
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Tony Davis
Jan 11, 20234 min read
Poems from the river
In this post we see the river through the experience of Tony Davis, an Oxfordshire artist, poet and fisherman. Tony was inspired to write...
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Annika Surry
Aug 19, 20224 min read
From cold water to open water: the continuing journey
Annike describes her ongoing journey - the evolution she has made from cold water dipper to open water swimmer, and the great benefits felt
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Melanie
Feb 12, 20226 min read
A Blind Swimmer’s Vision
What is it like to be a partially-sighted wild swimmer? A double paralympic champion Melanie writes about her wild swimming journey.
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Debbie, Emma and Darrin
Jan 15, 20226 min read
Every Body Counts
A story of how two wild swimmers in Swim Oxford's 4K Lock-to-Lock swim inadvertently helped to turn around the life of one of my clients.
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Three wild swimmers: Fiona, Darrin and Kath
Nov 6, 20214 min read
It's beginning to look a bit like winter
Three wild swimmers reflect on the return of winter swims
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kath Fotheringham
May 29, 20214 min read
Is it clean…?
We all have strategies to risk-assess the water every time we swim. Is it clean enough to swim in?
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Fiona Undrill & Katrine Gotliebsen
Apr 24, 20215 min read
All year swimming in North Norway
open water swimming all year round near the arctic circle
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Annika Surry
Mar 27, 20214 min read
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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Darrin Roles
Mar 13, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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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