Welcome
to the season of Winter, at least for this week and who
knows for the week after next.
Picking
up the pace a little, but not too much, February’s swim will
be just over a kilometre at 1.2km starting where we left off
at Iffley Lock and finishing at a convenient beach adjacent
to Kennington. (This will get us almost
halfway towards Sandford Lock, which will be the aim of the
1.5km March swim on Sun25Mar12.)
Once
under the road bridge, visible from Iffley Lock, that
carries Oxford's Southern Bypass, there are plenty of exits
points along the way to allow for an early escape, if the
temperature is too challenging. (January's swim was 4ºC
- can't get much colder else we'll be walking on it!)
This swim is the first almost half of Swim 31 in Michael Worthington's I ♥ the Thames book.
We will meet in the Health Centre car park – free parking – opposite The Tandem pub at 11:00am on Sunday 19th February 2012:
There is a short walk from there, over the railway foot bridge, to the river, where will check out the exit point before walking upstream to Iffley Lock:
At Iffley Lock we’ll jump in as near to the downstream side of the punt lock that mud allows to return to our exit point here.:
Returning to the cars we can then repair to The Tandem pub for a spot of lunch:
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