Welcome to a new episode of the What Next Mum Podcast!
Rather than release a new series I will be releasing ad-hoc episodes. In today's episode I speak to Irish marathon swimmer and Mum of 2, Elaine Burrows Dillane.
Elaine swam competitively as a child but did not swim again until 6 years ago when she took up sea swimming. In those 6 years Elaine has gone from swimming in local swimming events to swimming the English Channel in 2019 and then in 2020 and 2021 completing the Irish Triple Crown - the Fastnet Swim, Galway Bay Swim and the North Channel.
Elaine talks about how she trained for the swims, her brilliant team, the logistics and completing her final swim while dodging jellyfish.
What I love from talking to Elaine is her clear passion for more women to get into sea swimming -for exercise, the endorphins and the sense of community and to be proud that our body shapes and physiology can make us ideal for sea swimming, especially in the winter!
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Thanks for listening.
