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Guest Blog : Channel Swimming by Donal Buckley
A guest post by English Channel soloist and open water swimmer extraordinaire, Donal Buckley … You can leave the English Channel, but the English Channel won’t necessarily leave you. It’s an obsession and quest, that like most of these type of adventures is difficult to explain. So English channel swimmers fall back on some of the [...] -
Five top health benefits of swimming
Swimming is hailed as a wonder sport, and it’s not difficult to understand why. But perhaps you still need a little persuasion to head to the local pool for a few lengths. After all, with it being so cold outside you’ll be more tempted to add layers – and lots of them – rather than [...] -
Movember
Each year, men around the world grow themselves a moustache in order to raise awareness of mens health and specifically prostate cancer. On 1st Movember, dedicated men start with a cleanly shaven face and then for the rest of the sprout and groom their moustache. Today is the very last day of Movember so moustaches across [...] -
Speedo Fastskin 3
Speedo have been renowned for their fantastic technologies in their competition swimwear ranges, the Fastskin and FSII being some of their most famous. Wednesday 30th November the new Fastskin 3 is set to be released. This incredibly exciting new piece of Speedo swimwear has been created in the ‘Aqualab’ – Speedo’s top secret research and development [...] -
We’re Faversham Swimming Club’s New Sponsors!
Great news here at Simply Swim! We’ve been named as the new official sponsor of our local swimming club. Faversham Swimming Club is a fantastic volunteer run organisation with over 300 members, who range in age from 5 – 85 years old. The indoor pool is open all year round, with an outdoor pool open throughout [...] -
Hug a Swimmer Day 2011
Hug a Swimmer day began as a Facebook event began 1st December 2009 telling the world to hug a swimmer! Designed to share the love of our favourite sport and bring people closer together, we think this is a fantastic event for us all to take part in! So 1st December 2011 get out there [...] -
Easy Christmas Craft with your Swimming Equipment
Here at Simply Swim we’ve been experimenting with our swimming equipment to see what festive ways we can use them! These are great ideas for doing with the kids at home on the countdown to Christmas or making for school fetes. You can make a giant candy cane with your red pool noodle by simply bending [...] -
Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Swimmers
Looking for Christmas gift ideas for someone who loves swimming? Here is a selection of our top 10 favourite products here at Simply Swim that we think will make a fantastic choice and make your Christmas shopping so much easier. 10. The Tiger LSR Goggle is new from Head and is perfect for competitive or active [...] -
Fact : Fastest Swimming Animal
It’s hard to measure how fast an animal can move on land let alone underwater, virtually impossible to get an animal to follow a certain route to measure their speed. But a fisherman who caught a Sailfish recorded that within 3 seconds the Sailfish travelled 300ft (91m) underwater, so travels at roughly 60mph! This makes it [...] -
The Blue Lagoon, Iceland
October 2008 I visited the amazing country Iceland and discovered my all time favourite place to swim and relax – The Blue Lagoon. This place really is as luxurious as the name sounds. You can swim, bathe and relax in the Blue Lagoon with no hassle, no noise, just peace and quiet. The first thing that strikes [...]