The UK’s biggest swimming charity event, Swimathon, celebrates its Silver Jubilee in Olympic year with a big splash planned for the weekend of 27th to 29th April 2012. Officially launched at the fantastic Oasis outdoor pool in Covent Garden yesterday (Thursday January 5th), the event promises to be the biggest swim to date! Swimathon Weekend [...]
By Becca Caddy If you’re into running there are all kinds of different apps, like the Nike Plus iPhone app, and gadgets like Garmin’s GPS Forerunner watches which are designed to keep track of your run. They tell you your pace, how far you ran, where you ran and let you know how long it’s [...]
On Saturday I went for the traditional Christmas dip with the wonderful folk from the Outdoor Swimming Society. It was great fun, though I’m not sure I’d do it again without proper preparation – or a wetsuit. To swim in very cold water (it was 8 degrees C) ideally requires a certain amount of body [...]
This morning Speedo launched its revolutionary new Fastskin3 swimming racing system which could see world records tumble at next year’s London 2012 Olympics. Designed around the athlete from head to toe, the system’s cap, goggles and suit have been developed to work in harmony as a complete package. As a result, Speedo claims, Fastskin3 helps [...]
Speedo has launched an exclusive online competition for three passionate swimmers to become among the first in the world to experience its latest pioneering swimwear innovation – the Speedo FASTSKIN3. Now open for entries at www.facebook.com/speedo, the worldwide competition offers the opportunity for three lucky winners to become one of the first to wear the [...]
It’s Movember, time when men across the world attempt to grow some facial fluff to raise money for prostate and testicular cancers. To mark Movember we pay tribute to the best moustache ever in swimming, Mark Spitz’s (see right). Spitz , the best swimmer of his generation won 7 gold medals in the 1972 Munich [...]
I once had the pleasure of seeing Ian Thorpe, the ‘Thorpedo’, swimming at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002. To use modern parlance, he ‘smashed it’. He was the biggest swimmer I’ve ever seen and he looked so completely effortless in the water – almost like he wasn’t trying. But he still managed to [...]
Private club LA Fitness has joined forces with Community Swimming (part of British Swimming) in an initiative to get more of us taking the plunge. We caught up with former Olympic swimmer and Freestyle world champion Mark Foster to talk about his involvement in the scheme and also the upcoming London 2012 Olympics Goggleblog – [...]
All images: Press Association David Walliams celebrates as he completes his 140-mile charity swim along the River Thames in Westminster, London. The Little Britain funnyman, who has raised more than £1 million for Sport Relief, finished his extraordinary journey in eight days as thousands of fans -including Team Goggleblog – gathered at Westminster Bridge to [...]
You’ve got to admire the guy’s courage. Most people would have given up by now. But Little Britain star David Walliams is battling on with his Sport Relief Thames swim, despite debilitating stomach cramps and vomiting yesterday caused by swallowing water from the river. He’s been unable to eat very much, just a slice of [...]
