Downstream
then walked through the village and a mile up the towpath, just wearing costumes and goggles, and then ...
thinking, well, I’m quite glad it’s dark and I can’t see what’s in the water, what’s down there in the ...
people not to do that because it places more stress on the back and neck. But in the Thames I was really ...
Thames as far as Putney. But then she had three children and rowing is ‘a massive time commitment’. However, sh ...
Newbridge, southwest of Oxford, and that’s where she first went into the Thames to swim, along with a fr ...
‘All the stretches are different. North of Wolvercote is Amazonian with long branches hanging down, whereas ...
hardier, or women are every bit as hardy as men.’ ...
‘People are put off by the cold of the Thames, but it’s so beautiful’: Katia Vastiau who regularly swims near Oxford with compan ...
The three women try to swim every week, usually a 750-metre course through Abingdon. ‘As the days get darker ...
race I would feel nervous, my heart would be racing, and that’s what it’s like before swimming in ...
baring more flesh than you intend. Kate and Katia really encouraged me, they’re really fast, and you need a ...
work well while doing front crawl. The Oxford trio post their swims on the OSS site and others join in. ...
incredibly warm for the time of year, about fifteen degrees. The second time there was frost on the ground an ...
the Thames, I’ve never been ill. There have been recent sewage leaks, but mainly it’s scare-mongering.’ As ...
pleasant to everyone.’ Katia Vastiau, the third member of the group, first swam in the Thames two years ago. ...
just do the swimming part. ‘People are put off by the cold of the Thames, but it’s so beautiful, we see herons an ...
jump in, we know what we’re doing. We go on the left where there are no boats, but change if there’s a w ...
coaches usually say, “oh my God, you’re really brave” and are very nice. Sometimes someone might be a bit gru ...
and plastic bottles and put them in their wetsuits because ‘we use the river; we want to help clear it up. W ...
Abingdon Lock Pool’ with floating screens moored across the back stream. Four days a week were ‘set ...
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