Bondi Swim

Back to one of our regular haunts for this 3 hour swim and we had 23 swimmers including a few bonus guests. Anna D had flown in from Singapore the night before for Cam Spittle’s wedding and joined us for a quick ocean fix before she headed off, Anne P popped in for a swim and one of our favourites Lochie came up from Uni at Wagga for an ocean water fix. It was a bit cooler outside to start round 18 degrees but water temp was around 21-22 degrees and pretty calm.

As we were only doing 3 hours we decided to try not feeding as regularly as normal, every hour instead of 45mins which was 6 laps of Bondi as opposed to the normal 4. This was to practise swimming on less energy from food on the basis that at some point in a longer swim you are likely to be sick and not be able to hold anything done for a while. Your body needs to be able to swim through this. Most handled this OK particularly if the swimmer had had a good breakfast pre swim and were hydrated. Some really struggled and also found they felt the cold a bit more. This does happen if you are hungry. A good learning session.