Sunday, May 25, 2025

Sunday, May 25th, 2025

Today was a lovely day at the beach with water that was much warmer than yesterday morning. I measured 54° -  55° from the pier. Avila was sunny, 75° and windy with a holiday crowd on the beach. The wind felt like it was going to keep building into the afternoon. The water was clean and the surf was a friendly 2 to 3 foot. 
Jim swam at 10:30.  Niel, Paula and Don got in the water at 11. Don lives in the Bay Area and swam with us about a year ago. 

Our first plan was to swim to the Avila Rock but the wind got my attention and the thought of swimming from the rock back to Avila into a building wind and chop changed the plan. Swimming to the end of the Poly Pier with a return leg pushing us home sounded like a better idea. 

Swimming out to the first buoy was a wake up call, the water was rough and needed a constant push and timing to make good progress. At the Poly Pier we decided to swim to the third crossbars and then back to the Avila Pier.  The leg to the Avila Pier was like running downhill on a rough trail, better than uphill but still not easy. 

Paula, Don and NIel at the Poly Pier

Once we were inside the buoy line the water warmed up a bunch.

I'll swim Tuesday and Thursday at 7, Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 11.

niel

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