When you think about swimming, what pictures does it conjure up in your mind? Childhood lessons and chilly changing rooms at the local leisure centre? Or maybe summer days splashing around at the seas

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Just before Christmas, a bitter wind blew in. Ice and snow descended, first in Scotland and then, on Boxing Day, across the rest of the UK. Before it could melt or the new year arrive, a second blizza

Tell most people down the gym you’re considering a triathlon and they’ll immediately tell you how hard it is. Or how they had a mate who entered one, only to end up lost in a lake and eaten by a shark