Blog Entries from Simon Willis
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Last Update: Friday, June 3, 2022 - 00:09
We wondered how many people would turn up for Saturday's swim.45 had registered but, after a long period of settled weather, the forecast was not great. Two days before the swim, there was talk...
Buying bike can be a fraught experience. I've previously complained that you're not allowed to test ride bikes which shops don't stock. If you want something that's not in stock, then you have to pay...
Last weekend we went paddling again. This time, however, it was in a canoe. Our friends Colin and Katrina run Source-2-Sea canoe adventures. We introduced Colin to wild swimming and they...
I'd thoroughly recommend this trip, provided you understand what it truly is. That's the point of writing this blog and making the videos.Biking Dutchman had no editorial input and I made the...
As part of a superb swimming holiday in the Galapagos and mountain biking holiday that took in the high volcanoes and Amazon jungle, we stayed in Quito on three separate occasions.Video and story of...
It only happens occasionally, but sometimes I can feel a good photograph going into the camera.I felt it Sunday when I took the shot alongside of a young swimmer, slightly apprehensive perhaps...
Swim with the marine wildlife of the Galapagos and you will never, ever forget it. Our holiday with SwimTrek was not cheap. Yet the experiences of this week will flash across my fading...
A triathlon coach once told me, "early training gets easier after Valentine's Day because that's when we start noticing the mornings getting lighter again".He's right. Early morning trips to...
A new swim for 2019 on the HighlandOpenwaterSwim.com calendar.We swam it a week ago to get a feel for what it's like and to spot any problems. We found a few, which I'll mention, but on the whole it'...
It will be at Glenuig on 16th February.This weekend the tides were almost the same as they'll be on the day of the swim, so three of us did a recce.The video of the swim is below. Oh and if you...
