Sunday, July 13th, 2025

When I was out on the pier taking the water temperature (57°) I saw Paula and Eileen swimming in towards the buoy line. They had been swimming back and forth between the Avila and Poly Piers and would do some final distance along the buoy line. I think they did 5 to 6K M. Paula leaves Thursday for the Trans Tahoe swim, then to Ireland where she'll visit relatives and do a swim around an island at Sandycove, Cork. She, Eileen and Nick (?), will swim a point to point 10K in the Horsetooth reservoir in Fort Collins, Colorado. Paula had a great swim at this race last year and is looking forward to a second go.  

Jamie and I swam at 11. She has been swimming but not in the ocean for about a year. The wind was up, the water was 57° and choppy, it was 60° with partial sun. I wanted to do 4,000M which would be two triangles (3,200M) with a little extra at the end. The chop was out of the SW,  about a foot plus and some work to push through. Swimming along the buoys to the west on the west side of the pier was quite rough, but the next leg to the end of the pier seemed easier. Sometimes the rhythm and direction of the chop fits my stroke better and it feels easier.             

Jamie was getting cold and went in from the end of the Avila Pier. I continued over to and around the reef, came back along the buoy line and made my distance by swimming to the end of the pier and back.  

I'll swim at 7 on Tuesday and I'll start at 6:30, maybe even earlier, on Thursday to make a 9:30 meeting. Then Saturday at 7 and Sunday at 11. 

niel