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Endurance swimming and womanhood

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...