Swimming

June 2014 - i think you can manage that :)

Just need to rid the wetsuit and do a 2 hour stint in the sea a 16c or less.

What is that link ? Are they the people you swim with ?

Why Folkestone ?

Yeah, managed without the wettie up to Xmas, when it was down to 7C, but then took a couple of months off and got soft.

The guy who runs Coldwater Culture is a friend and a Folkestone lifeguard, and organises these meetings of freezy freaks down there every month, swimming off the beach or following the pilot boat (good practice for the Channel guys) - it's just over an hour from London, so I tag along. Painfully cold, but I'd still prefer it to swimming in lukewarm spit and kiddywee in a pool.