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Resources
Like many aspiring swimmers, when I was training to swim the Channel, I spent hours online watching Channel swim videos and reading training blogs.
In this section of the website, I wanted to provide a resource for other aspiring and accomplished swimmers by gathering together in one place as many videos and blogs as possible, as well as useful reading and official organisations and news sites. Feel free to browse the libraries by clicking on the menu buttons down the left hand side of the page.
These libraries are a work in progress, so please send any suggestions for additions to me at k.throsby@warwick.ac.uk
Featured video of the month
Kimberley Chambers: Cook Straits, March 2012
This is a swim I've not featured before - the Cook Straits (New Zealand, North to South Island). It's a tough challenge, and one of the only marathon swims that has 10 minute shark breaks built into the rules. This is a lovely little film, with perfect backing music...and some amazing footage of a pod of dolphins that came to keep her company. Congrats to Kimberley - a fantastic swim. Enjoy.
Featured blog of the month
Zoe Sadler: My journey to swimming the English Channel
I've never met Zoe Sadler, but I have heard her. I was recently shown some video footage from a 6-hour swim in Gozo, Malta on one of Swimtrek's long distance training weeks. It was a brutal-looking day - rain, wind and general nastiness, with the swimmers forced to swim in ever-decreasing circles as the circuit was shortened by the influx of jellyfish into the bay. At one point, the video focuses on a feed, with swimmers being passed cups of hot drinks and handfuls of jelly babies from the shore. And in the background, is the unmistakeable sound of violent wretching. At one point, someone behind the camera ask if that's Zoe being sick again. More violent wretching rings across the bay. That's a sound that carries. I'll leave the rest to Zoe to describe, but aside from her stoic endurance of an unspeakably brutal day in the water, the blog is great - entertaining and informative, self-depracating and honest. And there are lots of nice pictures too. It's a relatively new arrival in the world of swim blogs, but a fantastic account of the Swimtrek Gozo trip for anyone thinking of signing up for one next year. Click on the picture below to read more. Enjoy!
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