Open Water Swimming

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LindsD Aug 2018 7:39pm, 23 Aug 2018 24,261 posts	0 LindsD The very same, Rich. And thanks for the blog, ferret. What an amazing athlete.
LindsD Aug 2018 9:01am, 24 Aug 2018 24,263 posts	0 LindsD Oh. Just read the actual piece you sent. I only looked at the product yesterday.
beebop Aug 2018 12:51pm, 24 Aug 2018 1,164 posts	0 beebop Ouch - thanks for the warning, Rich.
ferret Aug 2018 1:10pm, 24 Aug 2018 3,266 posts	0 ferret If you rinse it out well, works like magic, but I think the magic culprit ingredient, that causes the grief, won’t be used again, without it any anti fog that I’ve tried is a useless waste of money.
LindsD Aug 2018 1:49pm, 24 Aug 2018 24,269 posts	0 LindsD I shan't be sending it back
JulesR Aug 2018 8:37pm, 25 Aug 2018 25,324 posts	0 JulesR Building up for my 10km Hurly Burly Swim in North Wales at the end of Sept. So far I’ve done a long swim of 3k, 4k, 4.5k, 5k and today 6k in various conditions (today was great, last week was very choppy). Site website suggests maximum training swim of 8k then taper, but don’t think I’ll make it past 7k next weekend. Looks like a cracking event suggested by katieb so thanks for that:)
ferret Aug 2018 10:21am, 26 Aug 2018 3,274 posts	0 ferret Agree it looks brilliant fun, but a bit too much fun for me. Weather to you Training distance sounds fine - familiarity with choppy waves is very useful!
sallykate Aug 2018 10:39am, 28 Aug 2018 5,533 posts	0 sallykate I'm not an OW swimmer (yet) but thought you all might like to know that this week's book of the week on Radio 4 is the memoire of the youngest person ever to swim the English Channel. First episode was yesterday: bbc.co.uk .
KatieB Aug 2018 10:51am, 28 Aug 2018 7,289 posts	0 KatieB Well done, Jules, your training is going well. I trained to 5km for the Swoosh (6km) which was what the website suggested and I think I probably would have been fine on 4km training. As I understand it the Hurly Burly is a very strong current, so I would think that 7km is going to be fine, not that I really have enough knowledge to say so. Really looking forward to your report, I am hoping to do this next year.
LindsD Aug 2018 11:25am, 28 Aug 2018 24,303 posts	0 LindsD I heard that, sk. Thanks! It was a brilliant counterpoint to the blog that ferret posted.