If you're looking to swim faster in an open water race then here are some tips for turning your lake swim into a structured and effective training session. 

Ben Price from Torq takes a look at how elite athletes fuel their challenges and asks whether the rest of us should treating our nutrition in the same way

This is an article we published last year, which in the strange ways of the internet has resurfaced - good timing too, with lots of people getting outside but the water still cool.

Let's be clear, we're not advocating a ban on walking near water. It's just we're puzzled by the need for authorities to ban or discourage open water swimming when far more people drown by accidentally falling in.