Like a musician, a swimmer needs to practice and fine tune their own skills.   Learning to swim and train as a competitive swimmer was the same for me as [...]

Experience shows that whatever the standard of swimmer we are never far from the basics fundamentals. Fundamentals of balance and streamlining are at the forefront of a swimmers skill development, […]

The biggest challenge we face as land mammas is that swimming efficiently is not hard wired in to our DNA, we are four limbed mammals,  we have no gills or [...]

Many swimmers and triathletes wear Garmin watches  to track their sessions.  Data is undeniably an important way to measure progress and speed and pacing are both metrics.  It is important [...]

Luxborough Lake runs alongside the River Roding on the border between Buckhurst Hill and Chigwell, just around the corner from Bancroft's School. This beautiful lake has remained closed to the [...]

I am fortunate to teach and coach both children and adults and behind every adult is the child, teenager and young adult that came before them.  Any negative memories and [...]