GregInTheWater
GLASGOW OPEN WATER SWIMMING COACH
I was determined to swim through the winter in Scotland; and by that I did not mean swimming in an indoor pool. I meant swimming in the lochs in the bracing...
Suddenly the week of the big swim was upon me, something I had been training for since August. This was going to be the longest swim I had undertaken, and of...
I had noticed on the openwaterswimevents website that there was a swim at Loch Ken in southern Scotland on the weekend before the Big Un. They were offering a 1km swim,...
The next step in my regime of increasing distance for the Big Un was to do a 5km race at Loch Ard. There was some doubt as to whether the event...
The day after the great Scottish Swim, a group of four fanatics from Wild West Swimmers, organised a training swim for the Big Un swim. What is the Big un swim?...
This swim is not the famous Pier to Pub swim in Lorne in Victoria Australia where they have 4000 swimmers with places allocated by a ballot. No this is the...
I had been looking for some events to undertake as part of my preparation for the 10 mile swim at the end of September. I found an event at Coniston...
As mentioned in previous posts, I have joined a social group of swimmers called the Wild West Swimmers. This group is fortunate to have numerous lochs and waterways to swim in...
I entered a swim at Balloch on Loch Lomond called the Wee Beastie swim to be held in late July. This event comprised three distances of 400m, a...
After my last swim event at Milarrochy Bay, I realised that I just had to get in and swim some more to adapt to the Scottish conditions. As part of...
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