If you're like me, 2020 may have prompted you to take stock and make some big life changes. In the new issue of Outdoor Swimmer we look forward optimistically to 2021 and celebrate Adventures Ahead. 

We meet Fenwick Ridley, the Geordie adventurer living the open water dream; if you are tempted by a new career in swimming, Rowan Clarke looks at how to set up a coaching business; Pete Kelly extols the simple pleasures of wild camping by a lake; and Keri-anne Payne explains how to use the principles of training from her Olympic career in your own pool training. If that sounds like a big ask, Helen Davis can help with her simple tool of goals and values to help motivate yourself.

We are very excited to interview Kerri ni Dochartaigh – Ella Foote talks to her about her book Thin Places, a mixture of memoir, social history of the Troubles and nature writing. And if you've ever hankered after being an Action Man (or Woman), Elaine Howley delves into the history of warfare and swimming.

Extract from the foreword to the January 2021 issue of Outdoor Swimmer Magazine by Jonathan Cowie, editor.