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All in a good cause
February is the new January in my blog book. Time to set my resolutions. Somehow January 1st is still too close to all that over-indulgence. Still Christmas cake left over and chocolate uneaten. Anyway...
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All in a good cause, continued…
Well last week’s plans to swim twice to kick start the training for Swimathon, (http://www.swimathon.org/index.php ) were only half fulfilled. An ill child, a cat with an unexpected fit and sheer...
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57 minutes and 5 seconds
Just to let you ‘well wishers’ know, today was the ‘Swimathon.’ I completed the 100 lengths, (2.5 km) breaststroke, and achieved it in under an hour as I had hoped. In 57 minutes and 5 seconds, in...
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‘Skinny Dipping’ and other swimming adventures *
Well, the last time I swam in the nude was many years ago BC** … We were in Malawi and climbing Mount Mulanje – a group of six adults with a couple of porters, on a four day three night hike. The trip...
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Short story, “Coming up for Air.”
Once under the water she always tried to reach the grill at the bottom of the deep end before completing the length – without coming up for air. The dive had taken her right down through the...
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Pier elegance
If you’re not familiar with the West Country, there are two seaside resorts of note on the English side of the Bristol Channel; Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon. If Weston is the noisy lively teenager,...
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Ironman 2012 Port Elizabeth
Just finished my first shift marshaling this years Ironman South Africa. which is being held right here in Algoa Bay for the 8th consecutive year. A 3.8km swim, 180.2km cycle followed by a 42.2km run....
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