Sunday, July 7, 2013

We had nine swimmers today; Niel, Dave, Sylvia, Amy and her friend Lilly who joined us for the first time , Rick, John H., Brad and Katie, who swims with the Lover's Point Kelp Crawlers in Monterrey and dropped in while visiting the central coast.  It was overcast but looked like it would clear soon.  There was a slight wind out of the SSW which would later figure into the swim.  The water was 58 degrees.  There was a yacht race under way which meant that there were sailing boats maneuvering around the Avila Pier so we planned to stay along the buoy line and put together a 1 to 1.5 mile route based on how far down the beach you went before turning back.  We swam out and down the buoy line and regrouped after covering aobut 400M at the last buoy.  Lilly and Katie turned around while the rest of us continued towards Fossil Point.  The water became colder and rougher the farther we went and when we turned back we found that the wind had freshened and we were swimming into a well developed wind chop and current.  I could feel the current pushing me back and the chop was large enough to to make breathing changeling on either side but it was not large enough to be breaking over my head.  I guess that makes it a Medium on the wind chop scale.  When we arrived back at the pier everyone had decided that they had had enough fun for the day so we called it good and headed in.  I had 1639M in 40.5 minutes total time in the water.

I'll be at Avila Wednesday evening for our 5:30 swim.

niel