The new issue of Outdoor Swimmer (August 2017) started arriving with subscribers over the weekend and will be available in shops from Thursday this week.

In our August issue we show you where you can have a glow-in-the-dark swim, meet extreme ice swimmer Jaimie Monahan, travel to Switzerland for an Alpine swimrun adventure, swim with bestselling author Ruth Fitzmaurice and chat with Olympic open water swimmer Keri-anne Payne. We've also got training plans to do outside, technique advice from Adam Walker and Terry Laughlin writes movingly about living and swimming while undergoing treatment for cancer.

If you are not yet a subscriber and would like to see what you're missing, you can buy a copy from us directly for the usual retail price of £5.25 plus postage and packing.

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