Doing it Tough?
Haydn
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Why is it that most threads seem to discuss the rights or wrongs of making a swim easier or faster? Drafting, hot water flushes, changing into suits etc.
What can we do to make a swim purer (no escort ), tougher (winter swims), technical (channel swims starting from Folkestone, Dungeness) etc ?
New swimming arenas; Antarctic marathons, ocean crossings, circumnavigations ?
What can we do to make a swim purer (no escort ), tougher (winter swims), technical (channel swims starting from Folkestone, Dungeness) etc ?
New swimming arenas; Antarctic marathons, ocean crossings, circumnavigations ?
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No need to thank me - just trying to help.
-LBJ
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” - Oscar Wilde
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I like an idea to cross the channel on the given date regardless of weather , and Non stop coastal relays. Swimming in bad tides and rough weather. Like spending a few hours stuck in a tide race, you get nowhere but the swimming is unreal.
As a variation on @Haydn's "no escort" idea, there's a self-navigated swim. Meaning, the swimmer has an escort boat for safety, but the boat stays behind the swimmer, and the swimmer is responsible for navigating.
(Note: I'm not taking credit for this idea. For more, read here.)
(did I just post that?)
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@Haydn was hinting at his hard-way EC crossing back then!
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