Downstream

work well while doing front
crawl. The Oxford trio post
their swims on the OSS site
and others join in. ‘A lot of
people swim in the Thames.
It’s going on all the time but
the last couple of years
Facebook has made it easier
to hook up.’
Esther’s companion Kate
Bradley first swam in the
Thames in 2010 downstream
at Clifton Hampden. ‘It was
November, but it was