Open Water Swimming

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LindsD 27 May 5:15pm, 27 May 2024 68,143 posts	0 LindsD Sounds absolutely fab
flip 27 May 5:59pm, 27 May 2024 6,119 posts	0 flip Sushi wrote:Nice swimming Flip. Thanks, it's been a good weekend 😁
flip 27 May 5:59pm, 27 May 2024 6,120 posts	0 flip LindsD wrote:Sounds absolutely fab Yes, been lucky this weekend.
flip 11 Jul 10:53am, 11 Jul 2024 6,121 posts	0 flip Bantham swoosh at the weekend with a few swim buddies. Torrential rain the night before I I found myself in the pissing rain helping the organizers move the tents to the hard concrete of the start. The heavy rain made the upper river a bit more murky than previous swims I'd read about. It was also a little choppy but nothing to write home about. One of my pod wanted a selfie and stopped us in the shallows for it which was a little annoying as was picking them up at 4.30am in Totness as they had flown down from the north east. The finish came up quite quick for me and I hung back from the finish beach. It was only then really that I felt the power of the river tide. Had to put effort in to swim the few meters to the shore. What a fantastic feeling. A relatively easy swim with that amazing tide and I wished I signed up to swim back. Maybe next year. I spent the day on the beautiful bigbury on sea / bantham / burgh island beach the next day at low tide and the river Avon we swam down almost disappears. It's an amazing river. I don't know the temperature difference from the north east but it was a hell of a lot warmer. If I didn't know better I'd say 4-5 degrees but know it can't be. I'm looking at other tide swims now cause my lazy gene likes them!
flip 11 Jul 10:54am, 11 Jul 2024 6,122 posts	0 flip
flip 11 Jul 10:55am, 11 Jul 2024 6,123 posts	0 flip
flip 11 Jul 10:56am, 11 Jul 2024 6,124 posts	0 flip
LindsD 11 Jul 11:52am, 11 Jul 2024 68,846 posts	0 LindsD Nice
richmac 11 Jul 1:42pm, 11 Jul 2024 28,475 posts	0 richmac Lovely
LazyDaisy 11 Jul 4:15pm, 11 Jul 2024 40,434 posts	0 LazyDaisy Very nice!