bloomin' freezing!

so Wales and i have been training hard trying to get as much open water swimming in as possible... the problem is, its blooming freezing!!  Temperatures are struggling to get up to 15 (which is pretty tropical) in our local rivers and lakes... but in Windermere temperatures have been reported as 9c ...

so we have had a think and weighed up all the pros and cons and decided that we really want to make the distance .. and don't want to risk getting pulled out with hyperthermia!  We are both carrying less fat than we were for the channel and despite eating everything in site, this doesn't seem to be changing.  We are also doing everything we can to get acclimatised, but at the moment even an hour is a real challenge.  So we have decided not to rule out wearing our wetsuits on the day.

I know this is frowned upon by some members of the ow swimming community but this is something we do for fun and to try to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust ... so if we feel like rubbering up.. we're gonna blooming well do it!!!

7 weeks to go.. so a few decent weeks of solid training and then we can start to rest up:-)

its been a long slog so far and has proved to both of us that we don't enjoy training for this kind of event... we both find it really boring!!!! so the next challenge may well take the form of another kind of relay or something a bit less isolating!!

catch you later

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