Downstream
swim he had a support crew of twelve. Charlie says it’s hard to say how much money he raised, but ‘at the ...
world triathlon on the other end and the financial pressure of funding it. The Thames is such an extraordinary pl ...
the upper portion, wherever you can get in.’ In 2011, when David Walliams started his Thames swim he began u ...
Channel five years before. It was when ‘a blue tinge’ began creeping up his back, one of the first signs ...
in a swimming club and she did races in south London,’ he explains. ‘She always liked open water and ...
lit up because it was for Sport Relief and they were pleased and excited because it was something dramatic. For us ...
you expend so much energy fighting the cold, just being in it is tough, you need to keep moving. My mind ...
glimpses, as you lift your head out to breathe, you get snaps and snatches, it doesn’t feel like reality ...
marked the point when watching someone swim the Thames became mass entertainment, others like to bathe here, ...
miles downstream, is another favourite spot for modern swimmers, such as Phil Tibenham. He first came to s ...
like I’ve done it for ever, swimming in the Thames. First I tried a little paddle and it escalated fr ...
kilometre. To be in water under a moon alone . . .!’ When his daughter was seven he took her for a ...
feels like it’s got conditioner in it and your skin feels like silk, it’s like a mud treatment. I’ve ...
something. But the worst thing that’s ever happened is losing an earplug. He is a Shaw Method swimming inst ...
swimming around Lechlade that I’ve signed up for a one- day swim with SwimTrek, covering five miles ...
it’s a famous river.’ He has vivid memories of spending childhood summer holidays in Ham in south-west London ...
dreaded it. But my mum liked getting away from things, the stresses of everyday life, and we spent a lot of ...
more into it. When I was young I would think, “who’s looking at me?” By the time I was fifteen or six ...
reaction from people is different now, we used to be asked, “are you allowed to do it?” and “are you ...
continued to run Thames swims every year: ‘we get a lot of Germans. After the British, they’re into open- w ...
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