I could be swimming 2 weeks today! The big training swims are done and I am now in the taper period of ‘ticking’ over until I hopefully get the call. With the windy weather of late, conditions have not been great for sea swimming, even in the relative shelter of Dover Harbour, so I did my last long swim in the 50 yard open air Pells Pool at Lewes last Saturday. 6 ½ hours up and down might sound dreadful, but I wish I had found it earlier, rather than the constant turns in the 20 metre pool I used during the winter and as it is a spring fed freshwater pool, little if any chlorine, so I avoided shrivelling up. Because of the weather, I didn’t manage to fit in the planned 8 hour training …
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