Open water swim

Did my first open water swim today at a local lake used mainly by divers, and the odd crazy swimmer!

I needed to get a swim in before next Sunday's first open water tri. It was a very chilly 8-10 degrees in the water which was about the same as the air temp.

It took a good while and a bit of effort to get into my wet suit.

Once in I could only manage a short amount of front crawl before I got brain freeze and had to resort to breast stoke for a bit. I managed the 400m lap and called it a day.

Just hoping as the lake next week is not so deep it will be a bit warmer!

Made some bread and vegetable soup to warm me up, yummy!