The Long Swim

We are living in very strange and scary times - climate catastrophe, a pandemic, US and UK leaders who are incompetent, lazy, sexist, malevo...

Last Tuesday, I swam the length of Windermere in 5 hours and 47 minutes. In the world of marathon swimming, and particularly now that...

Since whining about injury has become a bit of a default setting for the blog recently, I thought I'd return to a bit of opinionated ram...

As we move into week 9 (of 11) of the teaching term, it's been a really tough one, mostly for reasons that I'm not going to discuss ...

At the risk of this reading like episode 476 of my injury story., and since I have nothing exciting to tell by way of swimming adventures, I...

This is the next instalment in what is becoming a series of annual posts where I chart the gulf between my swimming aspirations and  bodily ...

When I think of the water, I always think about swimming; when I see a stretch of water, I wonder what it would be like to swim in it, acros...