2025 Conference 8th March

We’ll introduce you to Dover Channel Training and will define what to expect for the weekend.

Let’s start from the beginning.

What is it really like from someone who was a self confessed rookie in 2019? What did he learn? What did he wish he'd known going into the season?

What would he do differently now if he had the chance for a do-over?

Focus on technique

A short break to refresh your drink, grab a biccie, have a toilet break and do some retail therapy!

As you plan your own training, what do you need to consider with regards to your own safety and well being?

What is hypothermia and how to balance your training in cooler water.

Principles of training [Part 2]
Steps 2-5 for training for a big event.
[Emma France]

Feeding in training & on the big day
Some science behind feeding and the different feeding options provided by us. Do you need solids?

[Dr Nick Murch]

Team building, training & what to expect on the big day
Considerations when building your team. How we structure training: building up as the temperature increases, the qualifying swim, double dips. What do you really need to take on the day? What should you leave behind? What can you expect to be on the boat already? Find out what to expect on the day, not the rules, just the reality of getting from England to France. Recovering between swims and eating.

Break out your packed lunch; we’ll provide tea and coffee and chat with new friends.

Discussion on key medical considerations. Introduce SIPE, how to identify it and what to do. Sea sickness. Pain relief. Jellyfish stings / anti-histamines etc.

Recap training through injury & illness

Ask all your questions about tides, weather, start times, life aboard or beside a channel boat.

Stuart is one of the CSA pilots with more experience than a swimmer can ever have on topics like this.

Who do you need around you as you prepare for your big day? Whether it's a solo or a relay you will gain great support by having the right team around you.

A short break to refresh your drink, grab a biccie, have a toilet break and do some retail therapy!

What it is? How you might find yourself on it? Strategies for managing the experience physically, mentally and emotionally.

What we provide in Dover is so much more than just hours in the water. Week by week we subtly train you in the process that also works on the big day.

Find out why it's important to practice first in training and then apply the training to the big day. Find out about coaching.

If swimming the channel is 80% mental and 20% everything else, let’s talk about this 80%

Let's take your goals, your reasons why and identify all the big and little things that you're going to do in order to break through to succes

You have a swim, you’ve learned a lot that may have made you think differently. Now to create your plan to take you from where you are now to where you want to be.

Bringing it all together and how one small thing can be the start of a chain reaction.