Downstream
popular as the Classic; in 2012, 176 competitors took part, with finishing times ranging from two hours fifty ...
categories – elite, performance (men and women), then open men and then women. To begin with the elite was ...
overestimate their time, while women tend to underestimate theirs. While some are put off by weeds and mud – ...
They have already had people with hypothermia. ‘The Bridge to Bridge swim can be quite long and we had t ...
found herself at the front end of a wave of people. Someone swam on top of her, clouted her on the head and ...
we’d stopped her. Usually people drown because they’re doing something silly, then they panic and when you ...
then it’s not true about the currents, but if you’re cold and drunk . . .’ He has written to the press ...
or worse. If we can highlight good river etiquette, we may save the odd life. Joining a club is the first ...
dead, I’ve never seen major litter, but people have to realise it’s a living, breathing environment.’ The H ...
Henley Swim was recently invited to join the Marlow Rowing Club and create a hub for water sports; ‘we have fu ...
spots have been closed down in Oxford, and river racing has died out in Reading, the story of the Thames ...
swimming, and it hasn’t been replaced by rowing after all. Instead, two rowers have reintroduced people to t ...
7 Marlow– Cookham– ...
Maidenhead ‘For, O, the water’s deep and clear That flows by Marlow town!’ J. Ashby-Sterry, ‘A Marlow Madrigal’ ...
the River Thames than Marlow, declared Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames. It was the perfect place for boating, ca ...
along the Thames Path, had tennis, cricket and football clubs, as well as a river regatta, as with Lechlade ...
included only one swimming event, ‘the Canadian Canoe Race’, in which competitors had to stand and ‘paddle t ...
suddenly ‘while attempting to swim the river a second time’ and his brother and father perished while trying ...
Marlow is the modern setting for a mass- participation swim organised by Human Race, whose founder John Lunt says the Thames is ...
In more modern times, however, Marlow is notable for two reasons: an official ban on swimming in the Thames, ...
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