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WINTER SWIMMING IN SCOTLAND

I recently wrote this blog entry for The Big Blue Swim, and thought I would share it here with you. The Big Blue Swim (https://thebigblueswim.com/ ) operate swim adventure holidays in Greece over the summer. I have had the very good fortune to have worked with them as a guide since the summer of 2018 in two of their locations in Crete and Lefkada. Swimmers come from around the globe to enjoy… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: Balgray Reservoir, Chora Sfakion, Crete, Ionian Sea, Ithaca, Kefalonia, Loch Lomond, Openwater swim coach, The Big Blue Swim, White Loch

2017 Year in Review

Well 2017 was certainly another fantastic year with lots of swimming adventures. I will get the boring statistics out of the way first:- I competed in three swimming events with top ten finishes in all of them; I swam a total of 285 km on 167 different swims of which 140 of the swims were outdoors; I swam in six countries over the year: Portugal, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia, England and of course… Read More

Category: 2017 season, 2017 Year in Review, Uncategorized Tags: Bay of Kotor, Clyde River, Corfu, Corryvreckan, Dubrovnik, Ionian Sea, Jura, Loch Ard, Loch Lomond, Loch Voil, Luss, Montenegro, open water swim, open water swimming, openwater swim, Scarba, Scotland, wild swimming, winter swimming

GregInTheWater

GLASGOW OPEN WATER SWIMMING COACH