EXPERT ADVICE ASK THE EXPERTS
Sometimes you just have to ask for some help… Questions to our experts can be submit ed by email to
experts@h2openmagazine.com or posted on our Facebook page.
THERE ARE SEVERAL TRAINING CAMPS AT THE
START OF THE SEASON THAT YOU CAN NOW GO ON
TO GET USED TO SWIMMING IN COLDER WATER FOR LONG DISTANCES
Winter swimming at Houhai Lake, Beijing
HOW SHOULD I PREPARE FOR SANS-WETSUIT DISTANCE SWIMMING?
I live in the Western Isles of Scotland and I've got some charity swim challenges next year. I am keen to do these wearing regular trunks, goggles and swim cap. I've done plenty of sea and loch swimming, but always wearing a wetsuit. I'm not short of bulk to keep the heat in and can keep a steady 25-to-30- minute mile in the sea. Colin Macleod, email
Our long distance swimming expert Colin Hill says… Swimming in cold water without a wetsuit is, for some, part of the very essence of swimming in the outdoors. Such people believe that as the seasons change from summer to winter, the only thing that ought to change with the swimmer is the amount of time spent in the water. Let me use the example of the Serpentine Swimming Club as a guide. Generally, the only time you see people in wetsuits is from May to Oct, which many people think is the outdoor swimming ‘season’. But people swim in the Serpentine and many other cold-water lidos,
64 COLIN HILL
Our long-distance swimming expert Colin Hill was 2012 Olympic marathon swimming technical operations manager, and is a director of open water event consultancy Chillswim. He's swum the English Channel, and was voted H2Open's 2012 Open Water Ambassador of the Year.
STEVEN MUNATONES Our high-performance swimming expert Steven Munatones was the 1982 World Long-Distance Swimming Champion. He has coached the USA National Open Water Swimming Team, was the NBC swim commentator for the 2008 Olympics, and founded
openwatersource.com.
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