I went up to Lake Windermere for a swim on the 30th June with Julie 'i have done the channel butterfly' Bradshaw. She has a boat up there and my intention was to swim 5-6 hrs with the boat. My Dad and Bernard came up to get to grips with the feeding from the boat. We went up on wednesday night, lovely weather, extremely cheap £3.79 carvery!, and an earlyish night. 10am start on thursday - 3 hrs with the boat next to me. GOod to have done that as i went far too quickly, just trying to keep up with the boat when it went ahead, so i was aching after about 31/2 hrs when it normally takes about 6 hrs to get to the same position. Note to self - ignore the boat and let the boat worry about you. So i had a feed about 3hrs in and then the took the boat back and left me swimming at about 3hr 30mins. The aim being that my Dad and Bernard walked round and gave me a drink at about 4hrs... Julie saw them in a cafe at 4.40 having coffee and said i wont have had anything for almost 2 hrs and shooed them on.... i was absolutely starving! anyway - the recovery drinks worked really well and i was absolutely fine the next day - full 750ml of Recovery and 750ml of Promax.. Good weather and good to have done that! Water Temp 16.5 degrees and really not a problem at all. Used a little of the grease fat to try it out - it stinks! Will prob give it another go on the day as i need every bit of help i can get!
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