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Knockananig Reservoir
I’ve written a lot about my swimming “home”, the River Blackwater, but not much about my other regular training spot, Knockananig Reservoir. This small artificial lake is located near the top of a hill...
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Important Message on “Ice Mile” Swims
Over the last few weeks, we have seen many swimmers complete the very notable challenge of an “Ice Mile”. This is a 1.6 km swim in 5ºC or less. With so many swimmers having completed their Ice Miles...
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Exciting August 2013 on Irish Open Water Circuit
The Irish open water calendar for 2013 is slowly but surely coming together. August is looking like it’s going to be a very exciting month with big races on every weekend! Here’s a quick peak at how...
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Global OWS Conference 2013
It was announced last week that the fourth Global Open Water Swimming Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland in October 2013. University College Cork, where I am a full-time student, will be the...
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Guest Post: Patrick Corkery’s Ice Mile
Today’s guest post is a report from Patrick Corkery of NAC Masters SC (Dublin) on his successful Ice Mile attempt at Lough Dan in the Wicklow Mountains on Sunday, 24 February. Though he generally...
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Chris Bryan at the FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup
Last Friday, 1 March, the third race of the FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup series was held in Eilat, Israel. A total of sixty-five swimmers from sixteen countries descended on the city, on the Gulf...
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CS&PF Dinner 2013
After crewing for four English Channel attempts this year, three of them Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation swims, I decided that I’d go to the annual CS&PF Dinner. The dinner took place in...
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Back to the Blackwater
I’ve done virtually no open water swimming so far this year. I did a quick dip in Sandycove a few weeks ago which I wrote about in My first sea swim of the year… but nothing else since. I’ve been...
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Serpentine Swimming
One of my favourite swims from last year was an early morning dip in the Serpentine Lake in London’s Hyde Park, also the venue for the marathon swimming event at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Thanks...
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A Tour of Lough Hyne
This another sort of lazy post made up almost entirely of photographs. They’re worth looking at though as they are of a place where I’ve had some of my best and most memorable swims: Lough Hyne, West...
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Lizard Point Swim
Lizard Point (Cornish: An Lysardh, Irish: An Lios Ard, “the High Fort”) is located on the at the end of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall and is the southernmost point on the Great British mainland. One...
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Entries open for two great swims in June…
This week entries opened for two great swims this June. On the evening of Friday, 14 June, the Martin Duggan Memorial Swim will take place over a 2 km course on the River Blackwater in Fermoy. This...
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Product Review: FINIS Hydro Tracker GPS
More and more gadgets are coming onto the open water swimming market. Most of these are a bit gimmicky and are things that you’ll probably never use. Last Christmas, I got a present of a FINIS Hydro...
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Catching up on myself…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post lamenting the relatively small amount of training that I’d done in 2013 versus what I’d done in 2012. Over the last 3 or 4 weeks, though, things have started to...
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Guest Series: Ned’s SCAR Swim Challenge – Part 1
Over the next few days, I will be carrying reports from Ned Denison who is currently taking part in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona. Here is the first installment: It’s Sunday 29 April. I arrived in...
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Guest Series: Ned’s SCAR Swim Challenge – Part 2
Ned‘s report from yesterday morning: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 – 6:00 am (local time) The plane trip out has left me with big fat swollen ankles – not a pretty sight. Let’s hope they return to normal...
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Guest Series: Ned’s SCAR Swim Challenge – Part 3
Here is Ned’s account of his first day of the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona: I headed off to the pool today with Gracie while the others went shopping for water, trackers, video camera mountings and...
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Guest Series: Ned’s SCAR Swim Challenge – Part 4
Here is Part 4 of Ned’s report from the SCAR Swim Challenge: Up just before 4:00 am, which was frankly about my normal jet lag wake-up time. The house kitchen buzzed with toast slices, berries,...
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Guest Series: Ned’s SCAR Swim Challenge – Part 5
No email from Ned today, just a text: Completed swim in just under 3 hours. Canyon Lake is one of the top ten pretty places I have ever seen. No internet coverage… Today is the longest swim, 17 miles...
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Guest Series: Ned’s SCAR Swim Challenge – Part 6
Here’s Ned‘s report from Day 2 of the SCAR Swim Challenge in Canyon Lake: All the swimmers and kayakers (and kayaks) were transported upriver to a start location a few hundred metres from the dam (for...
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