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Charles Sturt Swim Challenge

Woo! Competed in my first open-water swim race this weekend! I wasn't planning to race, but our friends were heading down the beach to compete, so thought I would give it a shot. No wetsuits allowed of course (as most open water races), but the water this time of year is pretty warm anyways. A beach start, 100m to the first buoy, then 1300m UPWIND (unlike Kingston), 100m back to shore. I always feel a bit nervous swimming that far from shore here as there has been the occasional shark spotted in the water.

With no bike and run afterwards it was an all out HAMMER to the finish. A lot of fun! I've never felt I was able to swim that hard before.. but my body responded pretty well. The hard swim last week in the triathlon probably helped my preparation a bit. I exited the water and ran to the finish line. 19 minutes even! Probably the fastest I'll ever swim 1500m... but it was wind assisted, and minimal current too. The winner was just a tad over 15 minutes. Yikes.

The temps have started to even out here a bit.. cooler nights in the high teens, and perfect 28-32C and sunny days. It should continue like this, gently cooling all the way into May. We're due another nasty hot spell this week though.. with temps running up to 40C on Thursday. Rain? What's that?

March is festival month in Adelaide... everything is going on! The Clipsal 500 kicks things off with some V8 Supercar racing action on an inner city circuit. The hoons should be out in full force for that one. Then onto Womadelaide a 3-day world music festival, which runs into the start of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the second largest Fringe festival in the world which runs to the end of the month. I'll probably go check out some of the art shows, buskers, and comedy shows.

And finally.. a little Aussie humour (warning, contains foul language):

posted by Greg @ 2/25/2007