Eh?? 5th and 6th June, plenty of time 
Maybe people shouldn’t sign up for a triathlon without being able to swim first 
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You ll be getting kicked off the “ bigger “ triathlon site.
Legend status only comes from non swimmer to Ironman in 12 months.
That’s actually semi true.
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Right. So I jumped in the sea today. Jesus christ, it was freezing. The internet tells me it was 10 degrees
Quite comical really, waded in, got a massive brain/face freeze and never really made it past the waves that continually broke on me.
No actual real swimming took place but it was nice to be in the water for 10 or so minutes!
Glorious day day down on the North Cornish coast though
Little boy was pretty brave today. Kept going in to splash his feet
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I was actually having a conversation with some mates last night about how the pool booking system is working and how we need to get down to my beach for some ow swimming. 
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ha!
“fuck me that’s cold”
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First OW booked in for tomorrow… almost training like a proper triafleet now!
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which one are you doing again? Lakesman was it?
Yup… 8 weeks on Sunday! REALLY dont get on with the cold… so will be going full pansy mode and deploying gloves. Also need to swim whilst its cold to justify dry robe cost (albeit a cheaper DHB one).
I think Id take 1km in the lake right now!
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Ok… is there a formula or anything for working out how long the wetsuit needs to soak?
Number of years old * number of years last worn = x hours kinda thing?? 
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I just chucked mine on this week. It had been sat in the shed for a year.
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I just chucked mine on last summer, it had been chucked in the corner of a room for 11ish years.
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you are forgetting “+ number of kg gained since last worn…”
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Oh 11 years… christ its not that bad 
Its caked in mud… and I have no idea where from!!
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I had mine the Bath overnight.
Where are you swimming?
Not Colwick 
It’s was “roasting” for me last night
There’s no ego here either, I feel the cold as well and nearly always wear the full clobber, neoprene hat, gloves suit and booties.
I hold the white hankerchief up, we might all be different, but I sure lost the race to be the least dressed outdoor swimmer, no bragadocio in wanting to wear merely budgie smugglers here 
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A couple of weeks ago I went for a swim in the Dee, put on full clobber in the carpark in front of everyone, strode down to the river, put my hand in 
& walked back to my car avoiding eye contact with absolutely everyone
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I’ve been wearing a rash vest under my wettie this week in the sea.
It’s bloody cold and I’ve had enough after 30 odd minutes
Got sunburnt after though
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You’re setting the bar high for idyllic swim locations @Adam 
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Not warm enough for me yet - Loch Lomond is prob only about 7 - 9 degrees at mo. I think late May I begin thinking about having a look 
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