Angela
05/03/12
I had a very dramatic run up to my swim thanks to experiencing five cancellations of my go slot. To give it some context, it takes plenty of physical and mental strength to prepare for the swim. It is very stressful ensuring everything is in place and well planned. We all know that Channel swimming [...]
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Angela
07/09/11
With only two weeks to go till the end of the season (gulp!) and 5 cancellations under my ratty channel swimming belt, I am wondering if it will happen at all now. It has been a tough year of training with every weekend spent in Dover since April with plenty of early mornings and many an hour spent [...]
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Angela
07/09/11
To sum up this year’s channel swimming experience can be directly compared to the last year of school. You have the Head Master (Nick) and Head Coach/Mistress (Freda) with various other Heads (Barrie, Irene, Michelle, Emma). The pupils (us swimmers) know the pain of a long swim, beginning with the journey to Dover each Saturday [...]
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Angela
29/08/11
Last week on the 24th August 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first chap to swim across the English Channel in 21 hours 45 minutes. Those famous words: ‘Nothing great is easy’ certainly ring true. Click here to read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Webb
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Angela
29/08/11
Some of you may be relieved to know that those nasty little Sea Urchin spins finally released themselves from my foot after a long month and a half. I now have some charming little scars as a result. I guess a lesson has been learnt: keep far away from rocks under the water and don’t [...]
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Angela
29/08/11
This solo swimming business is a really drawn out process when it comes to actually getting your toes wet. My tidal window opened last Friday. I tried to muscle in on that day but some chap got in there first (he was left over from a previous tide) and managed to swim a whole 18 [...]
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Angela
29/08/11
I clearly can’t get enough of all this swimming malarkey and obviously need to try and swim across the channel 3 times this year so I’ve luckily managed to join another relay team, the ‘Channel Ramblers’. We are due to swim near the back end of September with our window opening from the 16th till the 26th [...]
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Angela
29/08/11
It’s been an interesting few weeks on the swimming front. A few Monday’s ago included a swimming lesson with Brazilian babe Bila Rodrigues from coaching school Love Swimming www.loveswimming.co.uk She helped to break down my front crawl stroke and fine tune each element of it. I will hopefully now have a smoother and efficient style [...]
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jonathan.ebsworth
18/08/11
As the loyal reserve to the JustSwim.It team I was torn apart by the offer to join the Sea Frogs not less than a week at the successful relay completed by JSI. However, self interest prevailed in a sort of masocistic kind of way when my application to the Sea Frogs, in the face of [...]
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Barnaby
10/08/11
Another brilliant video from our official video providers and good friends InSitu
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