A swell time

Swam at mid to high tide with a 5 ft messy swell. Ollie took to the board to look at strokes and realised that if you don't go out on your borad for a while you get very stiff shoulders!! For those who have never done it its a different workout to swimming, slightly, and your body lets you know! Trying to sit up on it and ride 5ft swell does knck you off balance too! still only came off once. Water temp was lovely, I believe approx 16-18 deg. Swam a warm up to 1st buoy and they turned right to start loops of the buoys. South west to north East current and wave direction made some of the loop quite a challenge. Swam in drafting groups with interval efforts to and away from shore and full race pace efforts or more swimming along the shore. Most manageed two laps which was good in these conditions.

Swimmers: Ollie, Ruth, Anita, Ricardo, Hildi, Keith, Paul C
Time: In 7:05 out 7:50

(Written by Ollie)