Who is swimming at Southsea on Sunday?

[Leprechaun]

E-fitz, Prof and me for starters - not sure if Flying Bean is coming too?
Two others from Guildford/Godalming
Maybe even a few spectators

[RoDeVe]

Is there an online playbill for this event? How many km is long?
We can do a distance challenge! I'll compete in a 5km OW event tomorrow in Neaples, who wants to bet a beer? :cheers:
:wave:

[GettingFaster]

Leppie, can you add details of where and when? May be able to drag small peeps along for a few hours, complete with camping stove, saucepan, coffee and perhaps a 'wee drop' for you soggy peeps.

As for betting a beer, RoDeVe, I have NEVER known our young Irish friend to turn down a challenge like that. I do think you should work out some kind of handicap system though, I believe he is one or two letters further along the alphabet than you...

[Leprechaun]

Leppie, can you add details of where and when? May be able to drag small peeps along for a few hours, complete with camping stove, saucepan, coffee and perhaps a 'wee drop' for you soggy peeps.

As for betting a beer, RoDeVe, I have NEVER known our young Irish friend to turn down a challenge like that. I do think you should work out some kind of handicap system though, I believe he is one or two letters further along the alphabet than you...

Meet Clarence Pier 2pm Start 2-30pm, Finish at Southsea Pier prob 20 mins later as the tide is seriously in our favour.

Expecting good weather and lots of support - wee drams gratefully accepted. Betting money on e-fitz to win something (more). My agegroup would be vets...per the entry form, 40-49.

RoDeVe - 5k would be much more fun and relevant to next year's goals so its hard to see common ground for a bet other than place in respective agegroup.

[Leprechaun]

Is there an online playbill for this event? How many km is long?
We can do a distance challenge! I'll compete in a 5km OW event tomorrow in Neaples, who wants to bet a beer? :cheers:
:wave:

Given the day I have had, a flight to Naples and a swim tomorrow has far more attraction even if I by beer for half of Italy.

[RoDeVe]

Given the day I have had, a flight to Naples and a swim tomorrow has far more attraction even if I by beer for half of Italy.

Leprechaun, forget the bet! I'll wait you at Capodichino airport this evening! :D

[Rick O'Shea]

Meet Clarence Pier 2pm Start 2-30pm, Finish at Southsea Pier prob 20 mins later as the tide is seriously in our favour.



Leppie, is it too late for me to enter? I swam at the IoW a few week's ago and have now forgotten how awful sea swimming actually is. If it isn't too late to put my name down, have you got a telephone contact please?

Rick

[Leprechaun]

Leppie, is it too late for me to enter? I swam at the IoW a few week's ago and have now forgotten how awful sea swimming actually is. If it isn't too late to put my name down, have you got a telephone contact please?

Rick

http://www.pnsc.org.uk/6/file.asp?fileID=45 has details, I just tried but only an answering machine. Portsmouth Northsea are the organisers, maybe someone knows someone......

It may well have been too late even when you deemed, wrongly of course, that sea swimming is/was awful. But you wont get unless you ask. There is a max of 80 so not as big as some other races.

Am expecting a serious thermal shock - Guildford Spectrum must have been over 30 degrees this morning, while the glorious Lido sat unused at probably 20.

Good luck!

[Rick O'Shea]

Thanks for trying Lep. The answerphone was on too when I called. Their entry form states that no late entries will be accepted so it looks like I will have to give it a miss. This Portsmouth Northsea shower certainly aren't as accommodating as the IoW organiser, Jenny Ball.

I'll buy you a genuine beer when we meet up, unlike the Italian RoDeVe who backed out of the bet quicker than you could say Jacko Robinsonno!

Swim well Leppie, and look out for those jellyfish.

Rick

[e-fitz]

Jellyfish?????

omeegawd... still getting over the little nasties that ganged up on me in the Menai.......all the more reason to go like the clappers, I suppose...

[Leprechaun]

Jellyfish?????

omeegawd... still getting over the little nasties that ganged up on me in the Menai.......all the more reason to go like the clappers, I suppose...

well given their attraction to you can you please keep clear of me.
perhaps the Southsea ones are more benign unlike their vicious Gallic brethern.
if I see as much as a crisp bag I will probably set a WR for the 2K though.
More vaseline vicar?

[RoDeVe]

I'll buy you a genuine beer when we meet up, unlike the Italian RoDeVe who backed out of the bet quicker than you could say Jacko Robinsonno!


I feel just a little bit joked!!! :D
Today I completed my last OW race of the season, 5km and a really good placement!

[RoDeVe]

Well guys, any news from Southsea?

[Leprechaun]

My spectators had declined to attend on the basis that the race "only took about 20 mins or so..." After 20 mins I was still looking for positive evidence that I had passed the posts with triangles at the top (these mark the "corner" that you aim at then round to get to Southsea pier). Then I saw them and a fair number of the field ahead.

I think the wind and a higher tide had added a bit of interest to the sea state so the first 600m or so seemed like a lot longer.

It was a great day for a swim - 18 degrees sea temp didnt feel at all cold. Its always the sea state that is more the critical factor. Once I was washed close enough to the shore to feel I could shake hands with some bloke standing watching, but if you stay out of the breaking waves it is not so bad.

I am still not too fussed about the racing element of it all - yes you want to see how many fellow lags you can leave behind, but the enjoyment to me is the man vs sea challenge. And also keeping the brain active by calculating that 15 times the swim distance= a cut price ticket to Cap Gris Nez..

Oh and for Rick O'S - they did take some time trial late entries (£6 a go) although they wouldnt have counted for places. Something to bear in mind next year.

Well Done Portsmouth Northsea SC!

[adamlelean]

It was a great day for a swim - 18 degrees sea temp didnt feel at all cold.
From memory 18 degrees isn't cold.

Now what I really need is some open water in east anglia, well anywhere under 2 hours away would be good.