Saturday, June 21st, 2025

This morning's swimming conditions were both wonderful and surprising; it was 47°, sunny with glassy water and a small swell, 😊and the water was 52° to 54° 😱.  The wind that began yesterday afternoon had pushed the water temper back down to winter numbers.   

Niel and Jodi at the end of the Poly Pier.

Jodi suggested that we do a big circle; down the east buoy line to the 4th buoy, around the reef buoy, to the end of the Poly Pier, back in along the pier and to return along the west buoy line to the Avila Pier. That route would be about 3200M. I'm already out of practice for sub 55° water so getting in was a wake up call. It took me until I was around the reef and headed towards the Poly Pier until I was evened out with the water temperature. I was grateful that I had decided on wearing my winter weight wetsuit before heading to the beach. Being evened out lasted until we were even with the end of the Avila Pier where the water temp dropped another degree or two. I was looking for warmer water the rest of the way to the end of the Poly Pier where it warmed up a bit. We swam in along the pier to the second crossbars. We decided to not swim to the first crossbars to avoid the kelp near the shore and instead swam to the end of the Avila Pier. 

We had not thought about what the swim to the P Pier had been like and 150M from the pier we swam back into the icebox.  It warmed up some near the Avila Pier. From the end of the pier we swam back the way we had come, to the #4 buoy on the east side and back along the buoys to #1 and in.  We had a nice finish for 4,087M in 1:35.

Having sunshine at the showers was nice and we felt good going home. 

I'll swim tomorrow at 11. 

niel