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Open Water Swimming

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Sounds absolutely fab
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Sushi wrote:Nice swimming Flip.

Thanks, it's been a good weekend 😁
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LindsD wrote:Sounds absolutely fab


Yes, been lucky this weekend.
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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!
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Nice
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Lovely
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Very nice!

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