The Next Challenge

Tag: Swimming

  • Can you help me gain weight?

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    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…

  • Wild Swimming Is Not A Sport

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    ‘My friend does that’, shouted down the lady from the side of her boat as my now wife and I swam past in the river below. ‘It’s that “Wild Swimming” thing, isn’t it?’. I smiled and said Yes but something about what she said irked me. She was friendly enough and she was right about…

  • Kit List For A Wild Swim

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      I am no expert outdoor swimmer – I’m not sure such a thing exists – but I’ve jumped in my fair share of cold puddles and ditches in recent years. Presented below is my personal view of the necessary equipment for a swim in open water. You may agree or disagree with parts of…

  • Twitter, the Hellespont and the Gobi

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    Here are a few articles that I’ve read in the last month and thought that you might like. I do a similar post each month. The links tend to come in part from adventure and expedition blogs but also the odd bit of philosophical stuff and a couple that make me laugh. Six of the…

  • Matt Baker Rickshaw Challenge (and other celebrity expeditions)

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    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…

  • 12 Reasons To Shower Cold

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    It wakes you up and leaves you feeling invigorated It saves power All the best people do. It gets your blood pumping which carries all sorts of health benefits Warm ones will then feel like a real treat. It’ll toughen you up so you can do more outdoor swimming It saves time (it might feel…

  • Cold Water Therapy (This Is The Serpentine)

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    Stupid. I should have known that late October was not a good time to go cycling in sandals but I’d come back from holiday the night before and hadn’t adjusted my thermostat. It is cold. To make matters worse, the first three miles are all downhill, littered with traffic lights and choked with commuters so…

  • So Far On The Thames

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    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…

  • A Thames Swimming Story

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    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.…

  • Thames Swim Video

    Thames Swim Video

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    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.  

  • Wild Swimming in Oman

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    I lived in Muscat for five months with my girlfriend Laura, an even keener outdoor swimmer than me. Oman has many beautiful places to swim wild and we sought them out whenever we could. Below are a list of swimming destinations that we either visited or wished we had. We make no claims to its…

  • A Sunny Summer Sunday

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    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…