NEW ISSUE! Swimming development🩱

Published: Wed, 10/01/25

Updated: Thu, 10/02/25

Dear Swimmer

Celebrate a very special milestone with us!

The October 2025 Swimming Development Issue  is our  100th edition, created by swimmers, for swimmers. This month we honour our roots—born in 2011 as H2Open—and showcase how outdoor swimming, and our community, have evolved. 

The creativity, camaraderie and determination of outdoor swimmers is what makes the sport so very special. As members of this wonderful community, we invite you to reflect on your swimming journey as well as hearing from those who've taken outdoor swimming in unexpected directions.

Explore the new issue, 99 back issues PLUS issues of H2Open on our app or Pocketmags when you subscribe - and see how far we've all come together.

Ella Foote, Editor

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WHAT'S CHANGED?

How did you start swimming outdoors? And has it gone the way you expected?

Over the past 100 issues, we've found that people's swimming journeys have taken them in surprising, intriguing and often transformative directions. Swimmers who have ended up crossing oceans, starting businesses, becoming coaches and writing books.

And it's not just that our swimming journeys take us in unexpected directions - they also change lives - ours and others'.

We meet some of these swimmers and discover their stories.

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CREATE 100 CHALLENGE

What do you think of our cover? Could you do it better? We would love you to create the number 100 with your swimming friends! On the water, on the side, in your swimmers... Get creative and send us your 100s - either DM us or tag us on socials.

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