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Aug 2020
1:16pm, 12 Aug 2020
1,233 posts
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BarefootEm
Hi everyone, hope you don't mind me dropping in, I'm just getting back into open water swimming having given it a go a couple of years ago and not really enjoyed it, but seem to be really loving it this time round, (providing I don't stop to think about the inhabitants of the water for too long!)
Problem is at the moment I am making a 3 hour round trip to swim, which means I can't do it often  I don't suppose anyone knows of a nice, safe, not too fishy spot in the forest of dean?
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Aug 2020
1:18pm, 12 Aug 2020
1,234 posts
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BarefootEm
And I am pleased to see others have similar problems with their watches, I thought it was just me! Naughty Nickers and I both have the same Garmin, and hers logged fine (as a walk) mine, point blank refuses! logs virtually nothing, if any distance at all!
And shoes, I wear Hot Tuna neoprene shoes, cost £2.50 in sports direct! I run in them too!
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Aug 2020
1:20pm, 12 Aug 2020
8,207 posts
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KatieB
Worth joining the outdoor swimming society group on FB and asking the same thing. There are often closed swimming groups that have some great spots that they don't want to be widely shared publicly but are willing to share with locals...our local group is called the flOUSEies and we have a closed group...but that closed group is expanding rapidly...
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Aug 2020
1:34pm, 12 Aug 2020
19,240 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
Hi Em. I’ve swim in the Wye at Kerne Bridge, Lower Lydbrook and upstream of the Saracen’s Head at Symond’s Yat. Obvs depends on water levels but there’s some good deep pools and (at LL particularly) chances to “endless pool” it using the current.
Need to watch out for canoeists and, around SY, pleasure boats. Nice if you find a quiet pool though.
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Aug 2020
1:56pm, 12 Aug 2020
10,945 posts
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Little Nemo
BE, do you have autopause set on? My swimming is too slow to register if it's on.
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Aug 2020
2:09pm, 12 Aug 2020
1,236 posts
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BarefootEm
Thanks Katie, I shall go take a look on facebook...
AC - these are places I recognise the names of, I will go and explore the map and maybe see if I can have a bit of an explore over the weekend (I am a little bit excited at the thought!)
LN - no, I did check that, as it is something that caused me bother a while a go, but no
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Aug 2020
4:57pm, 12 Aug 2020
112 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
I have a swim booked at the lake later and it's thundering!😩⚡☔🌈⛅
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Aug 2020
6:23pm, 12 Aug 2020
5,959 posts
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Nightjar
So have I LR. Though probably a different lake 😀 I have checked to rain map radar thing and I think/hope it will have passed me before 7 when I am due in. Fingers crossed...
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Aug 2020
10:02pm, 12 Aug 2020
116 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Cleared in time. Start was delayed by an hour, and we had to stick to the short loop, but it was perfect!
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Aug 2020
10:13pm, 12 Aug 2020
39,721 posts
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LindsD
Phew!
Had a lovely bob about in a river on the German border today.
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