Preparing For An Open Water Swim
If you had three months to prepare for a long open water swim (5-6 miles) and couldn’t spend hours and […]
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From Ironman Leeds to Swim Squad Sessions: Three Open Water Lessons
Three key open water lessons from Ironman Leeds—race-day reflections turned into training focus, covering pacing, breathing, and swimming in traffic.
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Swimming Coniston: Mindset, Lessons, and Joy from a 5.25 Mile Swim
Discover 8 powerful lessons from Jo’s 5.25 mile Coniston swim — from mindset to pacing, presence, and pure joy in open water.
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Back in the Open Water: Why I Love Coaching 1-1s
A reflection on the power of open water swim coaching – trust, transformation, and finding freedom in the water.
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Open Water Swimming: A Lesson In Staying Calm And In Control On Race Day
Open water swim starts can be chaotic. Here’s how one athlete stayed calm and confident – plus how you can train for it with us every Saturday.
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Open Water Swim Training: The Benefits Of A Group
Open Water Swim Training: The Benefits Of A Group Every spring, we launch our open water group sessions at the
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“If You Can Keep Your Head”: The Triathlon Swim Start
“If You Can Keep Your Head”: The Triathlon Swim Start The triathlon swim start is chaos in motion – arms
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Race Reports: Two Marathon Swims in Two Weeks!
“I’ve just completed two marathon swims in two weeks … in addition to Coniston End to End 5.25 mile swim in June. So I’m quite proud of myself.”
Lisa takes us on a swim journey … let’s join her as she relives her experiences!
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What A Journey: An Athlete Story
“Well done on setting some great big goals and doing everything possible to achieve them. You’ve deserved your success!”
Four years of an athlete-coach relationship has resulted in some brilliant achievements.
And it has been a pleasure along the way.
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The Triple Crown: A Swimmer Story
A story of a relatively new swimmer, a training plan, a couple of one to one sessions, a Swim Squad Online subscription – and The Triple Crown of swimming Coniston, Ullswater and Windermere in the same year.
Incredible!
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Swimmer’s Choice!
A quick switch of sessions, and our smaller group focused on technique – improving propulsion.
Across Mersey Swim – Race Report
One of our Swim Squad athletes, Elliot, tells us his story of swimming across the Rive Mersey. If you want more details, Elliot will be more than happy to tell you all about it – in glorious detail!
Anyway, here is his story.
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Race Report: Ullswater 3K Swim
As part of his build up towards Challenge Roth, Daniel entered the Ullswater 3k swim event.
Typical of his brilliant swim progress over the past couple of years, Daniel swam at the sharp end of the field and came away with the third place trophy.
Here are his reflections …
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Triathlon Swim: Some Lessons
I was absolutely stunned when I got out of the water and saw my swim time had a 33 at the start of it!”
Some lessons about the triathlon swim from one of our athletes.
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Open Water Swimming: “Am I Swimming Lazy?”
“I need a bit of open water advice. Not sure if I’m doing something wrong in open water, or if I’m just a lazy daydreamer!”
A swimmer asked me this recently after her first open water swim session of the year.
Here are my thoughts.
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The Triathlon Swim: Testimonials
The Triathlon Swim: Testimonials Peter After being very fearful of the open water, the bumping and barging, the off-route excursions
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Triathlon: The Race Day Swim
This should give you a good idea of the race swim dynamic & some of the things you may encounter, think about or make decisions on, during the race.
Having the skills & confidence to take on whatever is thrown at you is why we work so hard in open water sessions.
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Open Water Swimming: Improving Confidence
For swimmers who are new to open water or a bit nervous doing, you are not alone! Plenty of swimmers began their open water swimming journey feeling the same way as you do now.
If you want to reduce that anxiety and improve your confidence in the water, read on …
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Introduction To Open Water Swimming
“Putting wetsuits on in the changing rooms and the camaraderie with others whilst you’re doing that. It’s all the nerves and the apprehension. Then the shock of the water, the breakthroughs during the swim, the laughs, the stories afterwards.”
What are you looking forward to most?
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Open Water Swimming: How We Structure Our Season
As we begin our open water swimming season in a few weeks, I wanted to give you an overview of what our swim sessions might look like over the next few months and the structure we’ll be adopting for the season ahead.
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