Day 98 – 17th September 2010

A very strong swim today as the tides were fierce. The sea itself was calm, very little wave movement, but the tide was pulling hard to the West; so of course we swam to the East! Bob, Midge & I swam under the Pier to the two buoys towards the Marina and then diagonally across back to the Pier, all the way around, back to the buoys and around the far buoys and back in. The swim under the pier at the beginning was really hard, a case of head down and swim as hard as you possibly can and just force your way through the tide. I really think that if the tide was just 10% stronger we could not have gone through. Coming back around the pier with the tide we must have looked like bullets the speed we were going.

The Arches were once again alive with atmosphere, Fiona, Soweichi, Simon, Leo, David, Evo and others all regaling stories of sea swims of the past; poor Soweichi sporting a black eye having collided with another swimmer around the pier this morning. It all happens down at the arches in Brighton whilst the rest of the City sleeps!!

Must have been cold today as typing this my hands are struggling to get the blood flowing back into them; time for coffee me thinks!!