I have tried to weave analysis throughout my findings, but I wanted to draw them together here, while linking back to individual sections. Here are the key things I learned from my participants' about their experience of swimming between January to April at the Kenwood Ladies' Pond - and a reflection on my own, swimming with them.

Swimming at the ponds is an experience that comprises of much more than the few minutes in the water, encompassing  travel, ritual, anticipation, prep and aftermath in spaces across London. It is integral to their health and wider lives, whilst remaining completely separate from other exercise that they explicitly track and quantify. The experience is personal, ritualistic and deeply sensory, as evidenced by participants' incredibly evocative descriptions that I have recorded verbatim. For my participants, pond swimming balances the duality of being a deeply solo activity, whilst simultaneously relying on the social feel and community of other swimmers who happen to be there on any given day, enjoying the space and an activity that is anathema to most people. They can balance the paradox of relishing the exclusivity and quietness of the ponds in the winter whilst simultaneously celebrating wider enjoyment in the summer, and worrying about formalisation and digitization of the booking process reducing access to the ponds. And through auto-ethnography, I was able to record my own accelerated trajectory through what my participants had described on their own journeys of winter swimming at the ponds. From initial feelings of smugness, and wanting to broadcast my experiences widely, to being satisfied with the social element being limited to those who happened to be there as opposed to an experience shared beyond the enclave of the ponds themselves.