Category: Fun
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Christmas Day Swim 2013 – Shetland Islands
“In the 70mph winds, on a cold Christmas Day in Shetland, we hopped into the North Sea for our annual swim.”
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Swimmers take cold plunge in Berlin, London
Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution While many stayed well fed and warm inside this Christmas, dozens of hardy swimmers braved the cold in Berlin and London on Wednesday, to take part in annual Christmas Day swims. Around 40 people dressed in Santa costumes gathered at Oranke lake in Berlin to conquer the 41-degree Farenheit water. The…
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Hundreds brave the 2013 Cheltenham Lido Christmas Swim
See Clouchestershire Echo With temperatures around to around 3C (37.4F), more than 250 swimmers stripped down to brave the freezing pool. The water registered at 6.5C (43.7F), surprising colder than last year’s 7C (44.6F) considering the clear skies and sunny weather. Famous names took to the pool, including Gloucester Rugby’s Dan Murphy and Cheltenham mayor…
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Fancy a ‘perishing’ swim? – ITN coverage of the 1965 Serpentine Christmas Swim
See Channel 4 Covering the news on Christmas Day is always challenging – and was equally so in 1965 when ITN sent their roving reporter John Shearer to Hyde Park to interview [and join] the regular Serpentine race swimmers.
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Happy Holidays 2013
Yeah, a pretty lousy photo of a whale, taken from our car yesterday, near Ãir in the Faroe Islands. Four more sperm whales had gotten themselves almost beached on the banks of HvalvÃk (‘Whale Bay’), here in the Faroes, like those that died a few weeks ago, one ending up exploding. This time the weather…
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Polish Ice Swimming Championships – Chojnice 2013
Polish Ice Swimming Championships – Chojnice 2013 from Jonathan Cowie on Vimeo.
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Couch interview coming up
As we had plenty of spare time around the Herning 2013 event itself (not), I went to Silkeborg and interviewed two very interesting persons for an hour or so. Sound and videos look okay, but I need to cut a bit, before posting.