Just a quick word to let everyone know that the overnight swim on Friday night went well, with no major casualties. I was in the 1:50 lane, with Carmel, Cat, and Craig (all training for the Channel this summer), Lisa (already done a double Channel) and Niamh (too fast for anyone to keep up with). We were also joined at various stages by Roisin, Rob and Jen - all heading to Dover in the summer. We cruised through 4 hours of 100m sprints and took a break at 2am for 10 minutes. Time seemed to slow to a crawl from 3am to 4am, but then picked up with the end in sight. By 5am we started mixing in other strokes - Rob leading 50m front crawl, followed by Carmel burning through 50m backstroke and 50m breaststroke, until sprinting to the jacuzzi at 5:30am after completing about 21km. There were triathletes doing stints on Turbo-trainers, loud music and lots of food and drinks.
Riana did an excellent 6.5 hours for 16km and though tired and creaky there were no major injuries for either of us - no new ones anyway. The swim was fueled by Mi-Wadi, strawberries, blueberries, jelly snakes, minstrels, coffee and chocolate muffins. The two casualties of the night were my togs and my dignity, as I split the rear end of my Speedos at some stage during the swim and was not informed about it until I got out of the pool at the very end. The important thing, however, was that the event raised approximately 3,500 Euro for the Moses Foundation, so a good job done by all.
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