Amazing swim this morning. The rain last night meant that the river level had risen by a good 1-2 feet and the current was the strongest it has ever been. The water was dirty with mud which you could taste and there was a lot of foam in the water from it being churned up with the rain. The foam congregates into large clumps which look a lot like mini icebergs. I try and avoid these like the plague as have no idea what else might be in there.
To give you an idea of how strong it was, it normally takes us 23 minutes to reach the weir. This morning it took us 45 minutes to get there. We swim up to a boat as a marker and the current was so strong we were hardly moving forward at all, it was like swimming on a treadmill which was quite surreal.
Of course, the flipside of this is that swimming back with the current was amazingly fast. It was very nice to cruise back in double quick time, though at this point we were all pretty tired from our earlier efforts!
Hey Champ! Awesome effort this morning! Looking forward to a night swim too! Bring it!
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