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the swans; they are both in the river now, and they’re following us round the boat. At this point I put ...
Travelling down the Thames with SwimTrek, where the river is lush and the water is clean. ...
But soon I’m exhausted again, my arms and shoulders ache and I can’t swim breaststroke because of my wetsuit. ...
huge gap between me and the swimmer in front and, behind, just a wide expanse of river. I try to swim on ...
state and spent much of the first day of his world triathlon just floating. But, more importantly, I r ...
men have bathed and paddled and raced. Then I see the nose of a crocodile peeping just above the water, disgui ...
nothing; instead it’s a helicopter in the sky. The few times a boat does pass, it is carrying day tri ...
a kilometre and a half to go. This time when I’m offered tea I take it, with lots of sugar, then ...
again. We walk to an iron jetty on the other side of the lock to wait for the boat. I look at the ...
get on the boat. I say no, because I’m expecting us all to have a nice lie-down. But several of the group ...
‘No!’ we shout in unison. Someone suggests I wear flippers but I haven’t worn flippers since I was a li ...
Thames. I turn on my back and realise that with flippers on I can fold my arms over my stomach, lift ...
be the oldest on the Thames and built in the thirteenth century, we’re told to swim together because there a ...
Then Cliff, the boat driver, puts a long ladder into the water and one by one we haul ourselves up as ...
will be swimming all day tomorrow and others are already saying that’s exactly what they’re going to do next ...
look surprised and ask if I feel ill. But instead the man says thoughtfully, ‘I’ve got a wetsuit in the atti ...
dangerous rivers and having grown far too used to indoor pools. If I hadn’t spent months talking to other Thames ...
ever since that dip when I was ten years old, when this morning I feel more refreshed and exhilarated ...
3 Oxford ‘The best time to bathe ...
in the open air is early morning, for then the robust and healthy body has been strengthened by the night’s r ...
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