Swimming 1:08:00 [3] 3.7 km (18:23 / km)
Swim the Island Mudjimba!!
Been looking forward to this for ages and will definitely be back next year!!
But actually didn’t have the best experience.
Entirely my fault for not training more in the wetsuit I’d borrowed and then being talked into wearing it at the last minute. Got very bad chafing from it on my neck which is very sore every time I move now, and also it restricted my funny shoulder from moving enough so swimming was actually very difficult and I was trying to use my legs a lot which doesn’t do anything except waste energy. And the surf at the start was very rough which would’ve been fine, except because of how floaty the wetsuit is, I couldn’t dive under the waves, so I was getting tossed about a lot and almost lost my goggles and was so close to giving up and just going back to shore within about 30s of starting. Plus it was waaay too hot in the water with the wetsuit on. So not really happy/satisfied but have learnt a lot, and next time there will be no wetsuit.
But in any case it was very cool to swim around an island and very fun trying something new. And to think I used to be very scared of the ocean haha ! Can’t wait until the next one.