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Well done. I hobbled around the 2 mile in 1:01. Pulled something in my shoulder a few weeks ago which isn't sorted yet so it all felt a bit like hard work, but it was comfortable enough.
Thought I'd applied for my London Classics medal but my name wasn't on the list so I'll have to send over the marathon and Ride London details to get that.
Maybe 6 miles next year, not sure I'd have fancied doing it twice more today. Glorious day for it though.
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Nice work.
I'll be back next year for the 2 mile swim (can't be arsed with 6 miles again now I've done it) and try to push my time down to under 1h.
I went in at the back of the 9.35 Red wave (as did most of the other gold capped nutters). Then right at the back of the 11.25 pink (one mile) wave (we could stay in and do two miles) and then in a couple of minutes off the back of the 13.45 yellow (one mile) wave. Looks like I had breaks of 40m (water and a gel) and 1h8m (water, gel, sausage roll).
I enjoyed being away from the majority of swimmers, going off the back of a one mile wave was great as it had thinned out by the time I caught up with the slow lot and when I got round to start the second lap it was all but clear in front of me (until I started to lap the really slow people or the fast lot from the next wave overtook me).
We got two timing chips, one for ankle for the normal start/finish mats and one for the wrist as there was a timing sensor on the side of the pontoon which we had to dob against after 1 lap if we were staying in to do a second. All about keeping track of us in the water rather than timings (the online times don't have my individual lap times).
Swim marathon 10k in November next. Need not to have buggered my shoulder for that to happen, sure it will loosen up in the next few days.
Greenbank
Done. 3h41 total swimming time.
Did it as 3 x 2 miles (you couldn't stay in for longer than 2 miles at any one time). 1h10, 1h14, 1h17.
First two sets of 2 miles felt great. Felt tired starting the 5th mile and did not entirely enjoy the last mile (except for the last 200m).
Forgot just how buoyant a swimming wetsuit is, and probably only did 400m of kicking in the entire swim (my shoulders hate me) so I need to ditch the pull buoy and practice kicking as November's 10k is in a pool (so no wetsuit or pull buoy).
Awesome day out. Great organisation (and the Super Six spoils you with a dedicated area and lots of camaraderie) and amazing volunteers all over the place.