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Summer Solstice Swim

Summer Solstice Swim

I am taken with the idea of the sea being both reliably predictable and inherently unpredictable with its unknown depths, drags and currents. It is...

Endurance swimming and womanhood

Comparing myself to highly athletic male role models has had a considerable effect on my confidence since I began training. This is where swimming ...

Humans of Swimrise — Steve Flynn

I love how the sea transforms how I feel, how after a swim I feel present, calm and pulsing with life, its like the saturation has been turned up.

Humans of Swimrise — Mary Miles

I swim to escape, to recharge, to reconnect. Both with nature and with the many kindred spirits I find on the beach each morning. I think we are a...

Humans of Swimrise — Linda Hebert

Peacefully refreshed. Connected with nature and my tribe of sea swimmers. Happy and set up for the day. Grateful.

Humans of Swimrise — Jonathan Smith

The initial plunge, coming up from that moment and seeing all the happy heads around you and the exhilarating feeling thereafter.

Humans of Swimrise — Fiachna Ó Braonáin

Even during the colder seasons there is never a hint of regret for getting in the water.

The Sea to Me

I don’t ask or expect. I don’t crave the glorious summer sunrises over glassy seas. I don’t spurn the freezing February mornings with their numbing...

Humans of Swimrise — Detty Moore

I have no doubt that this energy is contagious and I can take it with me for the rest of the day and hopefully share it with others.

Humans of Swimrise — Raj Singh

Fresh like frisky, no better feeling in the whole world. I am ready to conquer the day and share my experience with everyone throughout the day and...

Greystones, spiritual home of Swimrise

Greystones is arguably the spiritual home of Swimrise, a phenomenon which has grown fins and become a global occurrence. For our group in Greystone...

Winter Sun

Winter Sun, a short film of a sunrise swim in late December, was shown during the recording of a live podcast at The Whale Theatre in Greystones, ...

Other times I just float. More often than not lately I am trying to create a photographic image of my swim.

Why do I swim

I find trying to define what it means to me, or what I get out of it fraught with danger. Putting a label on it is futile, it is too complex and, j...