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Swimmingpod

Stanley Ulijaszek

Swimming in the outdoors - lakes and lidos, rivers and oceans, especially the people that swim in them. Music - "Noe Noe", "Aeronaut", " Vienna Beat", and "Watercool Quiet", from Blue Dot Sessions.

sports swimming

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00:10:29

Juliet Turnbull and ‘Open Water – Share the Knowledge'

Swimmingpod ·

2022/09/09

Juliet Turnbull has set up a group called ‘Open Water – Share the Knowledge’, which is about sharing the open water experience that she and others have, with people newly entering open water swimming. As she puts it, promoting positive use of open water. This is needed, after a hot summer of rising water-based fatalities in the UK. Juliet is otherwise known as the Thames Mermaid, and she swims in the River Thames at Molesey and Thames Ditton almost every day. She has swum the length of the non-tidal

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00:19:32

Wild Open Swim, with Kath Fotheringham, Fiona Undrill...

Swimmingpod ·

2022/08/18

The Wild Open Swim Blog is the brain child of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford banner, the organisation run by Darrin, who created the Wild Swim series, known for being set in locations of natural beauty in West Oxfordshire. The blog is a celebration of open water swimming all year and the photographs, words and artwork that it has inspired. Kath lives and works and swims in and around Oxford. Originally from South Africa, she has embraced

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00:14:25

Tess and Judy Bird, Daughter and Mother Swimming in...

Swimmingpod ·

2022/07/13

Conversations that flow through the water, from mother to daughter and back again, almost dream-like. In this podcast I am in conversation with Tess and Judy Bird, both in New England, daughter and mother, both swimmers, sometimes together, most often not. Judy is a life-long swimmer, former life-guard, with an early excitement about open water that has stayed with her since forever. Tess too is a life-long swimmer. They share swimming stories with me. Judy – of being in the ocean beyond the

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00:28:01

Sophie Etheridge, adaptive athlete, and swimming the...

Swimmingpod ·

2022/06/02

I am truly humbled by Sophie Etheridge, and will never ever complain again about the aches and pains in my joints. Sophie is an adaptive athlete, who developed complex regional pain syndrome after a car knocked her off her bike as she was travelling to triathlon training. Now a wheelchair user, Sophie is tough, determined, an achiever, who won back her swimming identity stroke by stroke, swimming through the pain. In 2021 she swam the Two-Way Windermere, all 21 miles of it. She set up the

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00:24:21

Tom Elliott and Richard Flint Talk About Swimming and...

Swimmingpod ·

2022/03/11

Tom Elliott and Danny Longman swam all the lakes of the Lake District in four days, and Richard Flint filmed them. In this podcast, Richard, maker of the film ‘As You Lake It’, talks about the process of filming them do it, and Tom talks doing it - swimming the lakes of the Lake District.

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00:28:01

Dylan Friedmann - A Year (and counting) of Swimming...

Swimmingpod ·

2022/02/14

Toronto-based Dylan Friedmann is an inspiration. She undertook, January 1st, 2021, to swim (or dip) in Lake Ontario every single day of the year to raise money for the charity Kids Help Phone, helping with adolescent mental health in Canada right now when help is needed. Air temperature on some of her dips dips to minus thirty Celsius, the water close on zero. She completed her daily swims in 2020, all 365 of them, and she continues on, swimming and dipping, even when in February she has to dig

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00:19:09

The Second Great Stink? UK Swimming Rivers in a Mess,...

Swimmingpod ·

2022/01/22

The Thames, right now is not the universally clean and sparkling river of my dreams. This podcast is about trying to understand, as a swimmer, the problems surrounding rivers in the UK right now – the dumping of raw sewage, of pollution. How did we get into this watery mess? If it were simple, it would have been solved - so what is going on?

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00:33:19

Charles Sprawson's 'Haunts of the Black Masseur' at...

Swimmingpod ·

2022/01/04

This podcast, with German nationally-acclaimed playwright, essayist, dramaturge and prize-winning novelist John von Düffel and acclaimed film-maker James Norton, considers Charles Sprawson’s classic book about the history and cultures of swimming, some thirty years after it was first published. Both John and James are passionate about this book, John having adapted it for a German-speaking audience in 2002. The discussion ranges from swimming heroes, to romanticism, and to environmental degradation,

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00:25:28

Duncan Goodhew, Olympic Gold Medalist, and the State...

Swimmingpod ·

2021/11/19

Duncan Goodhew is a life-long swimmer and champion of swimming in more ways than one. He won Olympic Gold and Bronze in the 100 meters breaststroke and 100 meter medley relay respectively, in the Moscow 1980 Olympics. He has promoted swimming at all levels ever since. He is President of Swimathon, the swimming charity that brings together swimmers of all ages and abilities with two simple aims: to spread the joys and benefits of swimming whilst raising money for some of the UK’s most needful charity

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00:20:32

Anette Frisch and Mindful Swimming

Swimmingpod ·

2021/09/27

Anette Frisch lives in Dusseldorf, Germany. She swims in pools and the ocean, but mostly she is a pool swimmer, one that swims crawl because breaststroke is too slow for her. Which is not to say she is in a hurry. She is not; she is one of the most mindful swimmers I know, and this podcast very much became about exactly that – mindful swimming. It wasn’t planned that way, it just happened. Which is part of the magic of mindful swimming – it just happens. She is passionate about swimming, and her

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00:12:28

Pauline Barker, and the Polar Bear (and Penguin)...

Swimmingpod ·

2021/08/28

Pauline Barker talks about the origins of the Polar Bear Challenge, and how it has expanded. She describes how many people got through the UK COVID-19 winter through swimming, dipping or equivalent challenges. Most importantly, she talks about what’s in store for the coming winter of 2021-22. Winter swimming has probably never been so popular in the UK as it is now, and Pauline Barker, one of the most experienced people in this field anywhere.

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00:31:20

Ben Cousins and Free-diving in the South African Kelp...

Swimmingpod ·

2021/07/19

Ben Cousins is 72 years old and is passionate about the ocean – he has surfed it, swum in it, and now free dives in and around the ocean kelp forest south of Simonstown, south of Capetown, South Africa. At the start of our conversation in this podcast. Ben quotes poet Emily Dickenson - ‘That it will never come again - Is what makes life so sweet’. Ben lives life to the full, and strives to understand this mysterious world by keeping a diary for every swim - shark, octopus, sting ray, and all the

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00:11:31

Grumpy Old Swimming, with Judith Holder

Swimmingpod ·

2021/06/28

Judith Holder is a bestselling comedy writer, TV producer and speaker, who originated the BBC series and stage shows 'Grumpy Old Women' which have sold worldwide. She is passionate about outdoor swimming. In this podcast she talks about her love for swimming, comedy, and her podcast series with friend and comedian Jenny Eclair.

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00:17:59

Berlin Swimming Spree - Caitlin Kraemer and Swimming...

Swimmingpod ·

2021/06/04

Caitlin Kraemer is a graduate student in Berlin and has written an article 'Swimming in the City'. In this podcast we talk about Berlin as an outdoor swimming city, and city swimming in general. A citizen-swimmer, she knows a lot about the Flussbad Berlin, which will open up the Spree Canal to open water swimming right in the heart of the city. Music is 'Noe Noe' by Castro and 'Vienna Beat' by RadioPink, both on Blue Dot Sessions.

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00:22:21

Anna Deacon and 'Taking the Plunge'

Swimmingpod ·

2021/05/17

Anna Deacon is co-author, with Vicky Allen, of the book 'Taking the Plunge', She is a photographer of considerable repute, and has a number of swimming-oriented projects on the go. She talks about these, and more.

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00:39:22

Darrin Roles and the Lock to Lock Swim Events

Swimmingpod ·

2021/04/30

Darrin Roles started and runs, with acknowledged support from many friends and family, the Lock-to-Lock events in the River Thames upstream of Oxford. These swims are variously from Eynsham to King’s Lock (4 kilometers), from Farmoor to King’s Lock (6 kilometers) and from Farmoor to Godstow Lock (10 kilometers). In the course of setting up these swims, he revived the Oxford Mile (renamed the Oxford Classic Mile) and set up two swim-runs, along the same stretch of the River Thames as the Lock-to-Lock

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00:21:33

Sian Richardson, Founder of The Bluetits Chill Swimmers

Swimmingpod ·

2021/03/30

Sian Richardson, Founder of The Bluetits Chill Swimmers, talks about how this social enterprise, with now more than 6,000 members across three continents, started and grew. From Wales, at the beach near the farm where Sian has lived all her life. Sian has style, panache and a passion for winter swimming which she is taking to the world.

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00:19:26

Alex Foster's Anthropology of the Serpentine Swimming...

Swimmingpod ·

2021/02/26

Alex Foster spent the winter months of 2019-2020 learning about winter swimming and cold water immersion at the Serpentine Swimming Club, in Hyde Park, London. This is podcast is about his immersion in the club and its waters, and his MPhil thesis in Medical Anthropology on this topic. The thesis is available at www.lxvswim.org.

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00:16:53

Nostalgia for Lake Bled Winter Swimming Championships...

Swimmingpod ·

2021/02/16

A nostalgia conversation between Jeremy Wellingham and Stanley Ulijaszek about the Lake Bled Winter Swimming World Championships which took place a year ago, February 2020. We could not have anticipated how the year would unfold, so full of optimism was this event. Helped by the full-to-the-brim enthusiasm of the thousand-plus participants and their friends and family, there was seriousness, friendliness and fun in equal measure. ‘It’s wonderful to be here, it’s certainly a thrill…’

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00:19:25

Frost Swimmers of Gothenberg, Sweden – 100...

Swimmingpod ·

2020/12/22

Bada bada bada, Varje dag Bada bada bada, Varje dag Bada Ja, Bada Ja Bada bada bada, Varje dag! Less of poetry than trance chant – Swimming, swimming, swimming, every day Swimming, swimming, swimming, every day Swimming Yes, Swimming Yes Swimming, swimming, swimming, every day! Three women in Gothenberg, Sweden who swim every day, and bring joy, candles, bubbles and yoga on a surf-board, as well as their friends, to their project of a hundred swims into winter.

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