A Complete Explanation of Swimming Afterdrop
LoneSwimmer | The World's Best Guide To Cold & Open Water Swimming
by LoneSwimmer
10M ago
Some concepts or acts can be so fundamental to a communal activity that the members of that community can forget that they once may not have known of the concept let alone the meaning as the activity becomes second nature. These acts are not ignored, but accepted, language grows around them that the community understands and uses. But that language may be opaque to outsiders or newcomers. It can be difficult for outsiders to differentiate between such words or phrases and buzzwords.   ​There are a few aspects of open water swimming that fall into the first group, such as&nb ..read more
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On Barnacles
LoneSwimmer | The World's Best Guide To Cold & Open Water Swimming
by LoneSwimmer
2y ago
Cockles, mussels and limpets, all grand little lads and lassies, molluscs to a man/woman/whatever.  Cockles are the useless shells you fill your pockets with when you are a child visiting the seaside and your daft aunt uses to make “arts ‘n crafts”. Limpets are you with your first boyfriend/girlfriend. Mussels are nice in a garlic sauce with frites when you go to visit Cap Griz Nez with your Channel swimming friends, without any of you having to swim there this time. But barnacles… Barnacles are bloody little bastards. Barnacles demonstrate that you can be small, do nothing, go nowhe ..read more
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Beached
LoneSwimmer | The World's Best Guide To Cold & Open Water Swimming
by LoneSwimmer
3y ago
I started new year 2021 as I had never done previously, with a swim at dawn.  New Year’s Dawn 2021 I stole the veiled sunrise from the westernmost hidden beach of the Copper Coast. The horizon clouded up just before the Sun reached its fingers over to pull itself up though the rest of the sky was clear. I put my camera back in the car, changed on the frigid sand, my feet going from painful to numb as I entered the water, stumbled over some underwater rocks and stroked directly along the golden road of the Sun’s reflection out into cold and flat heaven. Changing back on the beach not too ..read more
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Beached
LoneSwimmer | The World's Best Guide To Cold & Open Water Swimming
by LoneSwimmer
3y ago
I started new year 2021 as I had never done previously, with a swim at dawn.  New Year’s Dawn 2021 I stole the veiled sunrise from the westernmost hidden beach of the Copper Coast. The horizon clouded up just before the Sun reached its fingers over to pull itself up though the rest of the sky was clear. I put my camera back in the car, changed on the frigid sand, my feet going from painful to numb as I entered the water, stumbled over some underwater rocks and stroked directly along the golden road of the Sun’s reflection out into cold and flat heaven. Changing back on the beach not too ..read more
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The Saving Grace of Open Water Swimming
LoneSwimmer | The World's Best Guide To Cold & Open Water Swimming
by LoneSwimmer
3y ago
Do you wonder about your favourite food or song or book?  Do you ask yourself, what’s my favourite swim? Or do you maybe even tell yourself after most swims, that “that one, that one was my favourite”? Like I do? We do this, assign rankings and preferences. But I am unsure why. Sometimes it’s idle, sometimes it’s an assertion of belonging, or belief, or emotion or experience. Is this something we are all doing even more this year-of-years? I have needed to write about this year, to write about it for myself, and by doing so, to hope that maybe I can write about it for some ..read more
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The Saving Grace of Open Water Swimming
LoneSwimmer | The World's Best Guide To Cold & Open Water Swimming
by LoneSwimmer
3y ago
Do you wonder about your favourite food or song or book?  Do you ask yourself, what’s my favourite swim? Or do you maybe even tell yourself after most swims, that “that one, that one was my favourite”? Like I do? We do this, assign rankings and preferences. But I am unsure why. Sometimes it’s idle, sometimes it’s an assertion of belonging, or belief, or emotion or experience. Is this something we are all doing even more this year-of-years? I have needed to write about this year, to write about it for myself, and by doing so, to hope that maybe I can write about it for some ..read more
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Tales of the Riverbank
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by LoneSwimmer
3y ago
We have tides in the river here but we are not an estuary. Here we are above where the ocean tide meets the down-flowing stream. We are quite up the river, well away from the sea in a winding route. There is no tidal bore so the tide is backed-up river water, not brackish estuarine water. The salt tide pushes upstream, then the brackish tide pushes further up until it reaches Loneswimmer Tower, where the tide is all fresh water, but where, still, it is a tide, a mesotidal reach. Fifty kilometres away along the coast, the Three Sisters of the Suir, Nore and Barrow rivers empty past Hook and Cro ..read more
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Real Sport
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by LoneSwimmer
3y ago
“Did you see that video on Facebook Donal? Complete tool”. “I mean what the hell Donal, is your sport all gobshites like that?” “It doesn’t matter you don’t use Facebook. It was on the news last night as well. Here it is here on my phone. Look!” “What kind of a fool goes swimming in a storm? There was a marine red alert and all! I saw that on the Twittter machine.” “That auld lad going in at Blackrock pier right in the middle of it! The whole of Galway watching. The whole country now! I’d hate to be that lad, he’ll get crucified.” “Wind blowing like crazy. Look at that water. Like a washing ma ..read more
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The Open Water Swimmer’s Dilemma
LoneSwimmer | The World's Best Guide To Cold & Open Water Swimming
by LoneSwimmer
3y ago
The summer and autumn of 2019 and winter of 2019/2020 have been unusual at the Guillamene cove. Not for the weather or for the sea but because we had a higher number of safety incidents than previously. There were a number of serious incidents that I am aware of that required intervention of inshore rescue and/or ambulance service. At a long established swimming location, with many people who have been swimming daily for decades, not a location with predominantly infrequent swimmers. Most of the incidents were of the same nature. People injured while exiting the water, with results ranging fro ..read more
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Tales of the Riverbank
LoneSwimmer | The World's Best Guide To Cold & Open Water Swimming
by LoneSwimmer
4y ago
We have tides in the river here but we are not an estuary. Here we are above where the ocean tide meets the down-flowing stream. We are quite up the river, well away from the sea in a winding route. There is no tidal bore so the tide is backed-up river water, not brackish estuarine water. The salt tide pushes upstream, then the brackish tide pushes further up until it reaches Loneswimmer Tower, where the tide is all fresh water, but where, still, it is a tide, a mesotidal reach. Fifty kilometres away along the coast, the Three Sisters of the Suir, Nore and Barrow empty past Hook and Crook Head ..read more
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