Our first SwimTrek Night in London
As the sun set on London on Wednesday 3rd February, SwimTrek held it's first social and talk evening at The Brockwell Lido Cafe, London. With drinks in hand, seasoned and new SwimTrekkers settled into their chairs as Kevin Murphy AKA 'King of the Channel' kicked off the evening with...
Introducing 'SwimTrek Plus' Trips!
So, you’ve been on a SwimTrek trip, maybe even a few of them. You love the swims. You love the guides. And you love the sense of adventure and achievement that comes from taking part in an open water swimming holiday. Now you’re ready to add a little something extra to your SwimTrek experience. ...
SwimTrek Nights | Info Evening in London this February!
Join SwimTrek for an evening of talks and insight in to the SwimTrek 2016 tours calendar. Kicking off the evening will be a talk from ‘King of the Channel’ Kevin Murphy on his long distance odysseys, followed by an introduction to SwimTrek and insight to the 2016 tours calendar with SwimTrek...
Swim to Protect your Seas, Shores and Marine Wildlife
SwimTrek and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) are set to team up again in 2016 to bring you the Big Sea Swim from the beautiful setting of Eastbourne beach. The event has gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2012 and last year over 100 swimmers took to the sea to raise funds...
Swim4Cancer - Corfu to Sivota Bay Retreat
For the last couple of weeks SwimTrek have been running Adventure Swimming Holidays at the Sivota Bay Retreat. They were aware that Neilson support Sail4Cancer and hoped to help contribute. The plan was to swim a crossing from Corfu back to the resort on the mainland. On Wednesday 28th November a...
Join an Aspire relay team swimming the English Channel in 2016
The Story so far… We didn’t imagine on the 7th September 2009 when 7 brave people stepped on to the first Aspire Channel swim boat that just 6 years later over 150 people would have successfully completed a Relay Channel crossing with Aspire and between them they would have raised over half a...
Swim Hellespont 2015 Results
Congratulations to all the swimmers who took part in the Hellespont Cross Continental Swim. For overall results, gender and age category classification please click on the following links; Overall Classification Female Swimmer Overall Results Male Swimmer Overall Results Female Age Category...
SwimTrek: The True Pioneers!
SwimTrek are already busy researching new and exciting trips for next year. So, last month Simon Murie was joined by some seasoned SwimTrekkers to test a new location and here is the report from Naomi Branston as to how it went. If you think of the coast on the Southern half of the Iberian...
An Interview with Channel Swimmers
We caught up with our Long Distance Training swim guides to uncover their passions and love of channel swimming! Our guides, Kevin Murphy, Cliff Golding, Fiona Southwell and Anna Wardly reveal all ... Kevin Murphy Kevin has swum the English Channel an incredible 34 times,...
SwimTrek joins the UK Open Water Swimming Championships
January saw the 5th Uk Cold Water Swimming Championships at Tooting Bec Lido, South London and 350 people braved the chilly waters. SwimTrek entered a relay team dressed as Pierrot clowns and some of the guides valiantly took part in individual races, good use was made of the sauna and hot tub! ...
