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Category Archives: Swimming
All In
50s Friday Four sessions done last week, the opening chapter of the return to the pool. This session is the third this week, so the early morning swimming routine is slowly, ever so slowly, starting to become habitual. Which is … Continue reading
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Sister and Brotherhood of the White Tile
Day 1 – Monday Time to make another come back thinks surfmuppet, after a Sunday night eating a litre tub of ice cream followed by a family block of hazelnut chocolate while binge watching some crap TV series – just … Continue reading
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Summer of the Butterfly
I was in the presence of a massive higher power yesterday, Doctor Pacific. Drove an hour to get to Clovelly for a rendevous with a friend. Despite approaching low tide the water was clear and not so cold, except when we … Continue reading
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Tagged Butterfly, Clovelly, Deathfly, Man from Atlantis, Patrick Duffy, Ripley's Believe it or Not
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The Big Swim 2015
Anticipation and Actuality Stiff and sore on this Australia Day morning, trying to put some words together to describe a great swim yesterday. Competing with a chainsaw snarling in the bush fifty metres away, as a couple of neighbours practice … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia Day, Husqvarna, Palm Beach, Patrick O'Malley, The Big Swim, Whale Beach
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Cry havoc and bring it on!
Was wondering what to title this blog. In for a penny, in for a pound? Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb? There’s no fool like an old fool? Took the bait yesterday when Gordy the … Continue reading
Galway Bay Encore
Here we go again! Back in the city of the Tribesmen on the banks of the Corrib for the annual Frances Thornton Galway Bay Swim, to be held this coming Saturday. Still suffering from jetlag after the long haul from … Continue reading
Cae and Ben the Channel Men
Famous day today with two of the squad swimming the English Channel. Cae Tolman left Dover at 0200hrs and Ben Hutt at 0300hrs, GMT. Start in the middle of the night, end in daylight on a French beach somewhere near … Continue reading
Mutant Dog Paddle
Definitely the coldest morning of the winter so far. “Surfmuffin!”- a call from the cold wasteland on the edge of darkness as Marty materializes from the pool deck and jumps into the frigidly lukewarm water of Victoria Park pool, 0605hrs. … Continue reading
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Port Macquarie Stone the Crows
Back again after a long absence. Surfmuppet spent the weekend up the coast at Port Macquarie visiting the mother-in-law in the company of the wife. Drama on Friday night when the mother-in-law took a bit of a turn and the … Continue reading
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Confessions of a Swimming Bludger Part 1
The southern Autumn is well progressed and the fall of the leaves and drop in temperature has seen the muppet take on the aspect of a bear starting the long sleep of hibernation earlier than most. He’s been a rare … Continue reading
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