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Howdy folks,

Its gonna be a cracker of a weekend! Hope to see you at some stage.

I had some great photos but lost me bleedin camera.

We'll be in the 40 Foot at 12 2mo and zip around a mail if you fancy any other swims over the weekend.

Bring a camera if u got one, we'll pop photos on ze blog.

Nessie Swimmers nows the time to book your Hotel.

Please zip me a mail when you've booked as I need to let the hotel know to minus the rooms from those we got set aside.

Good luck to everyone going to Athy for the triathalon.

HooHah!

Fat Al

Week - Milestone Swim - Hotel by Loch

Howryagoin,

Its 7 Saturdays till we cross the Loch and 15 Sundays untill we swim from Europe to Asia!

Nessie swimmers you are on 2kms in the pool this week and 800 meters in the sea.

Hellesponters you are on 4kms in the pool and if you do 800m in the sea you are motoring along.

Congrats to everyone who completed their milestone swim on Saturday.

The Leinster Sea Swims start in 3 Saturdays (6th of June). There's usually a swim every Sat & Sunday, they are deadly craic and can be a really useful part of your training. You can do them to race or simply to swim. They are handicapped so anybody can win on any given day.

You can find the full calendar here (Myself, Kedders, Butler and Paudie made the cover photo for this years calendar as you'll see).

Which reminds me, pick up the Irish Times on Saturday, our PR guru Donal was interviewed by them for an outdoor sports feature which should appear in their Magazine supplement.

There have been a gaggle of swimmers meeting up for midweek swims, we had a great swim in Seapoint on Monday. Keep an eye on the group mails detailing locations and times. With 6 weeks till Nessie its important to get acclimatised to the non-pool swimming. The current sea temperature is akin to what you will experience in the Loch.

We will be staying in the Loch Ness Lodge Hotel. So make your bookings when you can. If you want to get a roomie send an ol group mail.

Enjoy the 40 foot on Sat, its an 800m sea swim which is a little more than Sandycove and back, as long as its not too wavy that's a grand swim. I'm away myself but there'll be a couple of heads there who've swam it many times.

COME ON LEINSTER!!!!!

Happy Paddling,

Al

Week 12 - Milestone Next Week - Bit of Distance on Saturday

Howrya:)

What a week of sport! Leinster trounce Munster, Iniesta's injury time winner dumps Drogba and co. out of the Champions League and Graham Souness finally grows a pair! "Who did you manage Eamonn..???" Classic!!!

The Milestone swim will take place in the National Acquatic Centre next Sat the 16th. Get there for 4pm start swimming at 4.30, directions on their website www.nationalaquaticcentre.ie/location.php
Dont worry if you arent confident about making the distance, its important you come along and do your best, one of the objectives of the milestone swim is to give you an idea of where you are and what you need to do.

Week 12 is in full effect. Nessie Swimmers you're on 2kms this week and next. Europe to Asia swimmers you're on 4kms this week and next.

We'll start upping the distance in the sea this Saturday. The tide will be good a high at 12. We'll do a 400m swim.

If you fancy a weekday morning sea swim there's been a few of us in the 40 Foot at 7am once or twice this week. Its been great. We've had the wetsuits on and been doing a bit of distance. If you prefer evenings cool, send a group mail. The 40 foot, Killiney Beach and Seapoint at high tide are all great!

Happy paddling,

Al