We can look at meeting other swimmers for a walk before or after our swims to be able to catch up with each other without our voices being drowned out by the sound of waves. Many swimmers live alone and a swimming community that they regularly interact with may be he first to notice if they are absent, if they are distracted, if they appear sad. Particularly if you notice someone has been missing from swimming for a while or if you noticed a change in their behaviour when you last swam with them. Keep in touch with each other digitally with simple text message checking in on each other providing friendship. I don’t mean actually go swimming everyday but the sense of community, kindness and care you experience with your fellow swimmers shouldn’t be left at the beach, but bought into your everyday. Simply by bringing your swimming into your everyday. How can we look out for each other emotionally? The support of a swimming community to look out for me both physically and emotionally. Instead what experience has shown me is, I need support to swim through winter. ![]() Yes it makes it more comfortable to have a sports robe and a woolly hat post swim but really to swim all you need is your cossie, and sometimes not even that. Like what kit is required? How long should they stay in? How often should they go to build up acclimatisation? In reality you don’t need any kit at all. Swimmers tend to focus on the practicalities of cold water swimming. ![]() A mixture of excitement and nerves as they look to swim through their first winter. We always experience a huge increase in the number of swimmers joining our flock from about September. As we move into the cold winter months in England, it is more important than ever that we look out for one other both physically and emotionally. ![]() And this is also the reason the Salty Seabirds swim together. There is a reason birds roost together, fly together, flock together.
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