With next month’s IWSA Winter Swimming World Championships in Lake Bled, Slovenia almost upon us, thoughts turn to my first trip to the World Champs in Tallinn in 2018. It was early 2018 and we were enjoying some fairly Baltic conditions courtesy of the ‘Beast from the East’, all of which were b...

SUPPORTING CHARITY CHALLENGESSelkie’s New Year’s Resolution is to support a number of enthusiasts who are taking on a personal outdoors challenge for Charity. We would love to help out with some Selkie kit,  advice, and tips through our network of outdoors adventurers and Team Selkie. And to hel...

Last year Dee swam the English Channel, she swam from Robben Island to Cape town and was a member of a 6 person relay to swim across the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin. This year, in February, she will attempt to be the first Irish woman to swim an ice km in Antarctica. Her main goal with all...

It’s the summer of 1996, I’m in the midst of very excited chatter and very loud music as I urge my battered old car onwards towards its destination. One of my friends navigates (badly….old school style…with a map) as we chug along towards the venue of a dance music festival called Tribal Gatherin...

In November I travelled to Latvia for Stage 1 of the Winter Swimming World Cup , the annual opener of a competition series that takes swimmers around the world. Thankfully there are no qualification stages so swimmers of all abilities can take part. The competition for the medal places, however, ...

This is not medical advice, just some of my musings. It is not 100 exhaustive but may be useful. Medical things to be aware of whilst preparing / training / for medical sign off. Declare anything of relevance to the person signing your medical and in self declaration for event. In particular, in ...