MEET THE CLASS OF 2022

This year's 6 inspiring Girls have been selected and are preparing to take on swimming a mile in the Thames on July 10th 2022 at the Outdoor Swimmer Henley Swim Festival.
Read about each of them by clicking on their images above

Henley Mile

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The Big Swim

July 21st, 2022 / by / in: Uncategorised / 4 Responses

The Big Swim 8 minute read From day one, I knew I could swim the Henley Mile. It was within my physical capabilities, and I was willing to do the work in the lead up to 10 July 2022. It was a challenge; it was something to aim for and […]

Let’s Do This

July 9th, 2022 / by / in: Uncategorised / 1 Response

Let’s Do This 2 minute read Of course I managed to acclimatise back into swimming outdoors in London. The jet lag lifted, work was incredibly busy, and I had to ramp up my training regime for the looming Big Swim on 10 July 2022 – days, rather than weeks away. […]

Slow off the mark

June 4th, 2019 / by / in: Uncategorised / No responses

It hasn’t been the most auspicious of starts.  Re-reading my introductory blog, I see that it was posted in early May.  What?  Almost a month has elapsed?  And what have I done in the meantime?  Not enough, and not nearly enough with my daughter. I knew that maintaining motivation would […]

Camaraderie & coffee cake

June 19th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / No responses

Tempting as it was to keep gazing at my wetsuit, getting into it couldn’t be a one off occurrence. I needed to get on with it and dip my toe into water of the non-chlorinated variety.  I’ve been compulsively joining open swim groups on social media these last 12 weeks, possibly trying to convince myself that in some way this made me more […]

Fast, Flexible, Buoyant

June 5th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / No responses

My diligent internet research of wetsuits wasn’t getting me anywhere, so in the end it took my mum to say “here’s somewhere close by, just ring them”. Biting the bullet I did and arranged to head there the following day. On the phone it sounded relatively straightforward, they took the […]

Dipping a toe in

May 13th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / 3 Responses

Sometimes it’s those little questions that get in the way….like what an earth am I meant to be doing? Ok, I know the bigger picture, the general gist being to swim up and down at variety of different speeds, with a variety of paraphernalia, but aside from that. How do […]

Getting superpowers

May 4th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / No responses

It may sound a little odd to admit, but one of the things I worry about as I swim is being conspicuous. So when I received my official Henley swim hat I realised this was something I was going to have to get over, though I have to confess it’s […]

It’s all about the wobble

April 26th, 2016 / by / in: Uncategorised / 2 Responses

It’s not a great week when you find you have to include a walk along the towpath as part of your training, but I’ll take successes where I can and with the husband working away I needed to be creative. Not to be defeated I figured this gave me opportunity […]