RachaelSwims

NINE months ago, when I commenced training in earnest for this swim I had in my mind that there would be some magic trick, moment of...

A comprehensive account of my swim across the English Channel, or as comprehensive as I can manage. Told from the perspective of the...

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Five years ago, given the scenario of what was to come I would never have believed one person would be able to survive, let alone thrive....

For my first trip to Queensland, I was looking forward to sunshine, warm weather and luminous blue ocean. Instead I got rain and a 4m...

So according to Captain Matthew Webb (first man to swim the English Channel) "Nothing Great Is Easy" Well, WHERE were those words of...

Shit got real today, really real. Out of the blue, on a beautiful sunny day in a warm pool in the middle of sydney. It was the...

Sometimes (quite often) I have to remind myself that swimming from England to France is not something that most people decide to do in...

Its happening, I'v paid...Its happening. Im swimming the English Channel. I'v just completed the Rottnest Channel Swim; 20km from...