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12 Reasons wild swimmers should go indoors

If you’ve been part of the boom in wild swimming over the last year or so and have a discovered a love of the outdoors why on earth would you go and swim indoors? In that sweaty, chlorinated, indoor pool that feels confining and is full of lane politics that you can’t understand? If you want to get better at swimming and be able to swim further, faster or feel better in the water then you will definitely benefit from doing some sessions both indoors AND outdoors. 

The Humber Swim

The Humber estuary is a significant part of the landscape between Grimsby and Hull and one that has to be swam across.  A swim is always more exciting if there’s a destination; across a river, channel, or estuary, or from one side the other. Especially one with a...

The Short-Sighted Triathlete

I’m really quite short sighted. I can’t see to tie my shoelaces and I don’t get on with contact lenses. Doing any water sports can be a bit of a challenge. Back in the day when I first started triathlon, I’d never heard of prescription goggles, and I never came across anyone with the same vision problem that I had or they were wearing contact lenses. Triathlon and open water swimming was only just beginning as a mass participation sport so they were probably not something you got on the high street.

Human Efficiency in Water

Did you know that humans aren’t very efficient moving in water! When we compare 100m world records for running and swimming its much clearer how much energy we lose in swimming.