Rock and Roll Swimming -
I got in at 7 o'clock. The water had my full attention from my first step into the suds. The surf was made up of several different sets from the south and SE and all were 3 to 4+ feet high. It was 20 minutes before high tide and the push from the tide had the waves stacked up onto each other and breaking onto the beach. It was a bit of work getting out to the buoy line where the waves were not breaking and I could take a break. It was foggy to the west so I decided to swim back and forth along the buoy line with out and back loops around the pier each time by. Swimming parallel to the beach was easier but still very messy. The term Full Contact Swimming came to mind. I'm not sure how to define it but it seemed to fit today's constant battering by the water.
When I had completed a full lap of the buoys and two passes around the pier I was done and came in. The sun had come out and on the outgoing tide the waves had halved in height.
I'd been so busy at the start getting out that I never started my watch, so I don't have a plot of today's swim.
I swam about 1.5 miles in 75 minutes and felt like I had gone further. It's too bad that I did not start my watch. I'd like to know how much vertical change it would have recorded.
The air temperature was 54° and the water temp was up to 53°! I have not seen that number is some time.
I'll be back Thursday.
niel
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