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OUTDOOR SWIMMER MAGAZINE MAGAZINE OUTDOOR SWIMMER THE MAGAZINE FOR ADVENTUROUS SWIMMERS! ○ ISSUE 34 ○ JANUARY 2020 JANUARY Issue 34 • January 2020 PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES Ice swimming 2020 SWIM GUIDE PIMP YOUR How to… POOL SETS PLAN A SEA SWIM The history of multi-way Channel crossings Wild in the City Urban outdoor swimming outdoorswimmer.com 01> ON TEST: POOL TRAINING KIT – AND HOW TO USE IT + £5.75 9 772399 755014 WELCOME Editor’s letter Founder & Publisher Simon Griiths [email protected] +44 (0)7958 312607 appy New Year! Editor Marketing While most Jonathan Cowie Yvonne Turner H magazines are [email protected] [email protected] peddling some version Contributing Editor Sales Managers of 'New Year, New You', Ella Foote Sharon Tice once again at Outdoor [email protected] [email protected] Swimmer we are planning +44 (0) 7947 148 422 our 'New Adventures'. 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West Street, Bourne, Lincs, PE10 9PH his issue we introduce a new feature, Swim +44 (0) 1778 392467 Life, about swimmers who have been inspired [email protected] by water to create products, artworks or to mymagazinesub.co.uk/outdoor-swimmer change their life completely. If this is you, get in touch – we would love to share your story. Outdoor Swimmer Magazine is published by Swim wild and free, ZG Publishing Ltd 6 Maida Vale Business Centre, Mead Road Cheltenham, GL53 7ER Printed in the UK by Pensord Press Ltd on behalf of ZG Publishing Ltd. All paper used in this publication is sourced from well-managed, sustainable forests and is fully recyclable. Please consider the Jonathan Cowie environment and recycle this magazine once you have inished with it. Editor CBP000891 Distributed by Warners Group Publications plc, The Maltings, West Street, Get in touch… Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9PH. 01778 395043 Email me at editor@ ©ZG Publishing Ltd 2019. All rights reserved. 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For more tips on open water safety, please see: outdoorswimmer.com/ @outdoor_swimmer open-water-safety outdoorswimmer.com outdoorswimmer.com Outdoor Swimmer | JANUARY 2020 3 IN THIS ISSUE CONTENTS Regulars 6 TEAM TALK 8 PHOTO CONTEST 14 OPEN WATER NEWS 18 YOUR LETTERS 20 #SWIMWILDANDFREE 22 VIEW FROM THE WATER 24 SIMON MURIE 26 WILDLIFE AND SWIMMING Caddisly 27 COMPETITION Win a stay at Another Place, The Lake 28 THIS MONTH WE SWAM WITH... The Supermares 46 SWIM LIFE Siân Jenkins 88 TALES FROM UP NORTH The Tarns of Lakeland 90 MY SWIM STORY Whatever the outcome of Brexit and the election, the river is always there Features 30 2020 SWIM GUIDE A guide to this year’s must- do swims 38 FROM BOG TO BEACH Jasmine Tribe and her campaign to reduce single- use plastic 40 MULTI-TALENTED The history of multi-way crossings of the English Channel 68 4 JANUARY 2020 | Outdoor Swimmer outdoorswimmer.com DIVE IN January 2020 38 72 Excel Explore 50 COACH CASSIE 67 TRAVEL NEWS Our resident Olympian 68 BERLIN Cassie Paten answers Exploring the land of your swimming queries 3,000 lakes 52 SUPERMAN TURNS 72 NEW YORK Keri-anne Payne shows The 20 Bridges swim the most eicient way to turn around a buoy 58 56 HOW TO PLAN A SWIM Events How to plan a sea swim around tides, currents, 76 MARATHON SWIMS wind and swell 78 EVENT LISTINGS 58 PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES A swimmer and scientist Gear perspective on ice swimming 83 TRIED& TESTED: 60 SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING AIDS Winter swimming prep 62 NEW YEAR, NEW HABITS Recipes to kick-start your 40 New Year training plan outdoorswimmer.com Outdoor Swimmer |JANUARY 2020 5 THE TEAM'S NEW YEAR'S TEAM TALK RESOLUTIONS All the latest news from Outdoor Swimmer Towers! Jonathan Cowie, editor NEW YEAR, NEW ADVENTURES This year I fancy doing some n this issue of Outdoor Swimmer we choose our top swim classic long choices for 2020 – whether you are new to open water and I distance swims looking to enter your irst outdoor – Windermere is swimming event or you want a big deinitely on challenge for the new year. Plus, turn to the back of the magazine for our usual my list. comprehensive event listings – there's no Ella Foote, excuse not to make 2020 your year for swimming adventures! contributing editor Unsung heroes I am focusing Outdoor swimming is all about on tackling my community, so we want to celebrate the swim itness Unsung Heroes who make a diference to in 2020 ater too your outdoor swimming world. Send us many dips and cakes, not nominations for your Outdoor Swimmer enough miles swam. Unsung Heroes and the successful heroes will be featured in the February issue of Simon Griffiths, Image: Katia Vastiau Outdoor Swimmer magazine. Whether publisher it's a member of your club or group who works tirelessly behind the scenes, a swimmer who inspires Eat well, sleep Who is your you on to greater things (and swims), your group's best baker, a well and train outdoor campaigner, an inspiring coach... nominate whoever you think consistently, deserves recognition for their contribution to outdoor swimming and to do at swimming and the outdoor swimming community. Email editor@ least one new outdoorswimmer.com to tell us who you nominate and why. swimming hero? Jonathan Cowie and swimrun Editor adventure. Joanne Jones, sales executive To faf/complain Challenge of the month! less before Cold water geting in. I always enjoy it tan! so I should just Who has the most get on with it. impressive cold water tan? That lobster pink efect that Luke only swimming in cold water Chamberlain, editorial can give you. Swim wild and assistant freezing and tag your lobster I am looking pics with @outdoorswimmer forward (I think!) on Instagram. to swimming #challengeothemonth my irst open @wardenolove shows off water mile at her lobster tan! the Outdoor Swimmer Henley Swim Festival. READER PHOTO CONTEST 8 JANUARY 2020 | Outdoor Swimmer outdoorswimmer.com DIVE IN EDITOR’S READER PHOTO CHOICE CONTEST Whether wild swimming in Scotland, dipping in an urban lido, or exploring warm foreign seas… if you’ve captured a great swimming image enter it in our monthly reader photo contest. We’ll publish the best in Outdoor Swimmer magazine, and the winning image will receive a goody bag from swim travel company SwimQuest. swimquest.uk.com The winner will be entered for the overall annual prize, a swimming holiday with SwimQuest! The February theme is COMMUNITY. Please submit entries by 13 January. Send photos to [email protected] THEME: COLD PHOTOGRAPHER Mat Chapman Swimmer Mat Hawkes About the photo “I had just completed an approx 900m sea swim. Conditions were 6 degs water, air 8 ish, 35mph south west winds, big waves and 24 mins of emptying the tanks. One word: epic.” outdoorswimmer.com Outdoor Swimmer | JANUARY 2020 9 READER PHOTO CONTEST 10 JANUARY 2020 | Outdoor Swimmer outdoorswimmer.com DIVE IN SECOND READER PHOTO PLACE CONTEST Whether wild swimming in Scotland, dipping in an urban lido, or exploring warm foreign seas… if you’ve captured a great swimming image enter it in our monthly reader photo contest. We’ll publish the best in Outdoor Swimmer magazine, and the winning image will receive a goody bag from swim travel company SwimQuest. swimquest.uk.com The winner will be entered for the overall annual prize, a swimming holiday with SwimQuest! The February theme is COMMUNITY. Please submit entries by 13 January. Send photos to [email protected] THEME: COLD PHOTOGRAPHER Johnny Hartnell Swimmer Kate Botley About the photo “The Lady of the Lake, Kate Botley, on the glacial rocks at Semerwater in The Yorkshire Dales .” Worldmags.net outdoorswimmer.com Outdoor Swimmer | JANUARY 2020 11 READER PHOTO CONTEST 12 JANUARY 2020 | Outdoor Swimmer outdoorswimmer.com DIVE IN THIRD PLACE READER PHOTO CONTEST Whether wild swimming in Scotland, dipping in an urban lido, or exploring warm foreign seas… if you’ve captured a great swimming image enter it in our monthly reader photo contest. We’ll publish the best in Outdoor Swimmer magazine, and the winning image will receive a goody bag from swim travel company SwimQuest. swimquest.uk.com The winner will be entered for the overall annual prize, a swimming holiday with SwimQuest! The February theme is COMMUNITY.