After the swim this morning Jezz and I phoned Pete to get an update on the situation with the swim. The weather still appeared bad and Pete confirmed that in his Saturday phone call to our skipper that the winds had not abated.
Pete managed to patch through our skipper to the call who stated that things still looked bleak and that he did not see the winds calming down until after this week.
The options were to still wait and be sent out in strong tides which could mean than we did not go until maybe 6 September or wait until the next neap tide which is around 24 September.
We have decided to wait as Jezz had holiday booked which he was unable to start until the swim commenced. Jezz has now gone on holiday and it looks like we will reset to do the swim around 24 September.
We are all absolutely gutted about the delay as we felt ready to give it our all and do a decent time. We are off out for a drink tonight to commiserate (without Jezz who is now in warmer pastures) and then look to refocus on another date.
I can't tell you how frustrating it is to think that you may be going one day and then the weather doesn't play ball. I guess at times like this you just have to look at the positives. We'll be able to get in some extra training which will make us even better prepared.
Let's hope that second time round the weather will be more favourable and we'll be able to finally get going. Until then there will be more training (and blogging) so I'll keep you all up to speed with our progress. Perhaps we could do another night swim to pass the time??
Thanks for all the support so far. It is really encouraging to see how many people are reading this.
We will get across!!!
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