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Freshwater Pearl Mussel
If you read Donal Buckley‘s blog, you might notice a lot of physical and biomechanical references. If you read Karen Throsby‘s blog, you’ll notice a lot of sociological analysis of open water and...
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Survey Results: X Ray of Open Water Swimmers
Reblogged from Open Water Swimming: When we conducted our last poll on how swimmers from different countries defined “cold water”, a number of respondents suggested that we do a more comprehensive...
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Global OWS Conference 2013
It was announced last week that the fourth Global Open Water Swimming Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland in October 2013. University College Cork, where I am a full-time student, will be the...
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Guest Post: Patrick Corkery’s Ice Mile
Today’s guest post is a report from Patrick Corkery of NAC Masters SC (Dublin) on his successful Ice Mile attempt at Lough Dan in the Wicklow Mountains on Sunday, 24 February. Though he generally...
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Chris Bryan at the FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup
Last Friday, 1 March, the third race of the FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup series was held in Eilat, Israel. A total of sixty-five swimmers from sixteen countries descended on the city, on the Gulf...
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CS&PF Dinner 2013
After crewing for four English Channel attempts this year, three of them Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation swims, I decided that I’d go to the annual CS&PF Dinner. The dinner took place in...
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Gluais Téarmaí Snámha
Ní fhuil aithne agam ar aon ghluais téarmaí snámha sa Ghaelainn. Tá an-chuid scríobhtha i mBéarla agus i dteangacha eile ag daoine ar nós Steven Munatones agus leithéid. Dá bharr san, do bheartaíos...
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“An Saol ó Dheas” i gCOC
Veain RnaG lasmuigh d’Áras Uí Rathaille i gColáiste ha h-Ollscoile, Corcaigh. Tá an-chuid imeachtaí ar siúl i gColáiste na h-Ollscoile, Corcaigh chun ceiliúradh a dhéanamh ar Sheachtain na Gaeilge....
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Suíomh Idirlín Nua an tSnámh Cuimhneacháin Martin Duggan!
Do scríobhas cúpla seachtain ó shoin fén tSnámh Cuimhneacháin Martin Duggan a bheidh ar siúl in Abhainn Mhóir na Mumhan i Mainistir Fhear Maí Dé h-Aoine, 14 Meitheamh na bliana so. Aréir, do...
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Back to the Blackwater
I’ve done virtually no open water swimming so far this year. I did a quick dip in Sandycove a few weeks ago which I wrote about in My first sea swim of the year… but nothing else since. I’ve been...
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Serpentine Swimming
One of my favourite swims from last year was an early morning dip in the Serpentine Lake in London’s Hyde Park, also the venue for the marathon swimming event at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Thanks...
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A Tour of Lough Hyne
This another sort of lazy post made up almost entirely of photographs. They’re worth looking at though as they are of a place where I’ve had some of my best and most memorable swims: Lough Hyne, West...
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Lizard Point Swim
Lizard Point (Cornish: An Lysardh, Irish: An Lios Ard, “the High Fort”) is located on the at the end of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall and is the southernmost point on the Great British mainland. One...
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A Bit of a Whinge…
There’s really very little going on at the moment – the winter has been dragging on and on this year with double figure temperatures still very elusive and frost most mornings. From taking to the gang...
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Entries open for two great swims in June…
This week entries opened for two great swims this June. On the evening of Friday, 14 June, the Martin Duggan Memorial Swim will take place over a 2 km course on the River Blackwater in Fermoy. This...
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Yes, I’m still here!
I haven’t posted in a while, but I am still here! The last week and a bit have been very busy with a college field course. We had a great 3 days doing ecological research in Garretstown (one of our...
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Tá na Fáinleoga Tagtha
Tá an t-Earrach buailte linn fé dheireadh! Tar éis dúinn geimhreadh fada fuar a shárú, tá an teocht ag dul i n-airde agus tá na fáinleoga tagtha. Tagann na h-éin bheaga dheasa so go dtí an Eoraip ón...
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Product Review: FINIS Hydro Tracker GPS
More and more gadgets are coming onto the open water swimming market. Most of these are a bit gimmicky and are things that you’ll probably never use. Last Christmas, I got a present of a FINIS Hydro...
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Catching up on myself…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post lamenting the relatively small amount of training that I’d done in 2013 versus what I’d done in 2012. Over the last 3 or 4 weeks, though, things have started to...
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Guest Series: Ned’s SCAR Swim Challenge – Part 1
Over the next few days, I will be carrying reports from Ned Denison who is currently taking part in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona. Here is the first installment: It’s Sunday 29 April. I arrived in...
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