Standing at the edge of a reservoir on a steamy August afternoon and gazing at that cool, level water while…
Browsing: Swimming
Certain locations in a city subtly become a part of people’s daily routines because they are just good, not because…
When you try to enrolll your child in swimming lessons in the UK, a certain kind of quiet dread sets…
Every Supertri race has a point between the second transition and the last run where the entire event ceases to…
Most people don’t think about the time when scheduling the swim seems more difficult than preparing for it. You can’t…
It takes a certain kind of insanity to look at forty kilometers of open water and say, “Yes, that’s the…
Twenty-one miles seem abstract when you stand at Shakespeare Beach in Dover and watch the grey-green water stretch toward an…
Londoners’ attitude toward outdoor swimming is subtly obstinate. The city rediscovers its lidos and ponds with an almost evangelical fervor…
Watching families spread their towels on a British beach with kids running toward the water while raw sewage is being…
Somewhere along Hampstead Heath’s meandering streets, the city loses its sense of reality. The sound of traffic decreases. After the…