Tag: Swimming the Thames
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Swimming Lake Balaton
This morning I am flying to Budapest ahead of the weekend’s Balaton-átúszás: the annual swimming race across Lake Balaton. It’s about 5km and my wife, Laura, is taking part. Apparently the water is positively balmy at the moment. Sadly, my shoulder is still a long way from front crawling after an operation in February (part of…
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No Plans for a While
Just a quick note to let you know that, due to “health reasons”, I won’t be planning any more projects for a while. That includes finishing our cycle from the Scilly to Shetland Isles and swimming the Thames. Hopefully I’ll be back soon. The blog will continue as normal. In other more exciting news: The…
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Skateboarding, Mud Running, Barefoot and Swimming
Back after a brief hiatus whilst in Patagonia, here are half a dozen articles that I’ve read in the last month or so and thought that you might enjoy. I do a similar post each month and have created a new archive page for the Six of the Best series. I was pleased to notice that only…
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Can you help me gain weight?
I have recently started a new diet. Last year, Laura and I began swimming the Thames as part of our Greater London Triathlon. We would drive out west, put our wetsuits on then swim until I got tired or cold. And it was always me shivering or aching, not Laura. I’ve done one big swim…
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Matt Baker Rickshaw Challenge (and other celebrity expeditions)
A couple of months ago I got a call from somebody at the BBC’s The One Show asking about riding a rickshaw long distance. I have to admit that I didn’t know what The One Show was but, after being as helpful as I could, I’ve since been brought up to speed and seen presenter…
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So Far On The Thames
Well, the summer months are drawing to a close and I’ll be out of the country for about six weeks supporting Sarah Outen so this seems like a good point to round up how Laura and I have got on swimming the Thames so far. We have covered about 19 miles of swimming. I still…
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A Thames Swimming Story
Laura and I are swimming the length of the River Thames And we’d like to take you on a short journey. Come on in! We started at the source of the river. The first 14 miles were too shallow to swim so we ran. Once the water started flowing properly though, we jumped right in.…
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Thames Swim Video
Here’s a little video that my friend Nick from Your Web Media put together of us swimming down the Thames the other weekend. Originally I hadn’t written anything else here but my website went funny when it tried to include the video below in the summary text so I’ve added this pointless sentence. Cheers! Tim.
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A Sunny Summer Sunday
It was a sunny summer Sunday when we loaded our car with a picnic and headed off to the Cotswolds. We paid a princely pound to the parking attendant and took our space in a field with an ice cream van. Friends and families feasted and frolicked on the banks of the Thames and we…
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The Source
We looked down from the bridge and were surprised at just how shallow it was. With a shrug, we started running in the opposite direction. Our Thames swim started ankle deep in Cricklade a month or so back but the source of the Thames is actually some way further west. It’s too shallow to realistically swim…
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Like Martin Strel – Thames Diary #3
Swimming downstream with the flow of a river is about as close as I’ve ever felt to flying. When your arms glide effortlessly through the cold, clear water, and each time you glance to the side, the bank is moving like the view from a train window. I would recommend it to anybody. Our swims…
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Sleep in a field, swim in a river – Thames Diary #2
I feel a little bad writing this. No matter how amazing an expedition, a daily account is rarely the most riveting way for it to be documented. And with a project like swimming the Thames, you’d be forgiven for thinking that one stretch is much the same as the next. That, however, is one of…