I haven’t posted in a while, but I am still here! The last week and a bit have been very busy with a college field course. We had a great 3 days doing ecological research in Garretstown (one of our less regular swimming spots), Castlefreke (not advisable to swim here) and Glengarriff (home of the Gaddin’ About Garnish swim). I seemed to be one of the few people to get the reports in on time so that leaves me with almost 3 full weeks to study for the summer exams, or maybe get distracted and actually do some swimming!
In my absence from blogging, though, I have actually been doing some swimming for a change. On Sunday, I travelled to the University Arena in Limerick for some long course training with Fermoy SC and have been swimming regularly with them over the last few weeks. As well as that, the weather has been improving so Dave Mulcahy and I headed for a swim in the Blackwater on Tuesday. The water temperature was much higher than expected (about 8ºC) but there was a strong flow which was reflected in our 0.5 km splits of 16 minutes and 5 minutes for our 1 km dip! Hopefully the trend in increasing temperatures and increasing swimming will continue over the next few weeks, and maybe I might get some study done as well…
Ba mhaith liom ádh mór do ghuí ar gach duine atá ag déanamh a scrúduithe béil sa Ghaelainn agus sna teangacha eile an tseachtain, mo dheirfiúr ach go h-áirithe. Go n-eirí go geal libh go léir!
Related Articles:
- River Temperatures Rising! (BlackwaterFermoySwim.com)
- Teocht na hAbhann ag Ardú! (SnamhnahAbhannMoire.com)
Filed under: Ireland, Open Water Swimming, Pool Swimming, River Blackwater Tagged: Blackwater, blogging, Castlefreke, college, Dave Mulcahy, ecology, Fermoy, field trip, Garretstown, Glengarriff, MDMS, river, training, UCC
