Tine Barkmann - Open Water Swimming

I'm running open water swim sessions for everybody through most of the year. While the summer months call for longer swims, working on your stroke and on confidence in open water, the winter months give us a whole other sense of achievement and buzz when swimming outside (you basically become a hero). Once I had walked over that frozen beach, snowflakes in the air, there was no turning back to being a summer swimmer 'only'. Having said that, swimming throughout the year in Scotland is 'cold water swimming' most of the time anyway, as the water temperature rarely climbs above 15 degrees, and therefore it is always challenging and good fun!