Taking its inspiration from the world’s biggest half marathon the Great North Run, Great Swim uses the formula of mass participation events to provide a focus and a challenge for which the individual can train.
Locations have included high streets, ferries, restaurants, factories, markets, theatres, sports grounds, the Great North Run, race courses and the ballet.
Great Britain | North Carolina | North America | North Rhine-Westphalia | Great Depression | Alexander the Great | North Korea | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | North Yorkshire | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | North Island | North Sea | North Africa | North Dakota | North | Kingdom of Great Britain | Great Western Railway | Raleigh, North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | University of North Carolina | Great Yarmouth | Scarborough, North Yorkshire | Peter the Great | Great Lakes | North Pole | Frederick the Great | home run | The Great Gatsby | North Vietnam | Great Fire of London |
Writing Residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, HMP Holme House and HMP South Yorkshire.He has given many poetry readings, including readings in Paris, Moscow, Potsdam, Sofia, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, New York and London's Poetry International.
Woodman is a runner and has participated in the Great North Run, The Birmingham Half Marathon and the London Marathon where in 2012 he recorded a time of 3 hours.