September and some October

An after-work swim on 1 October.


September was a weird month. Pool swimming was slightly disrupted for some of it by being at Covid Alert Level 2, which meant that while we could swim in the pool, the public lanes were double-width and very crowded. Happily, the sea was warming up though, and lighthouse laps became a possibility again. By the end of September, I had done three lighthouse laps, with the temperature in the sea ranging from 11-12.5 degrees. There has also been a lot of strong northerly and northwesterly wind, so conditions tended towards the choppy.  Overall, my kilometres were slightly down, comparing September with August, but only by 7km. I had to miss a Friday 5+km because of a concert, and there were two other shorter-distance days that account for the discrepancy.

October has continued to be windy, windy, windy. There's been plenty of swimming in big chop! However, on Friday last week, there was a perfectly still morning, and I enjoyed a very calm lighthouse swim at 7am, followed by another 3km (very creaky) in the pool. On Saturday Rebecca and I went a bit longer in the sea, doing a zig-zagging swim of Lighthouse-Fountain-1st buoy-2nd buoy-3rd buoy-fountain-1st buoy-beach. This gave us just under 90 minutes and pretty much 4km in the sea. We weren't frozen, and can definitely do more!

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