[OSS Oxon] Swim this Friday?

[Louise & David]

Hi - (does this go out to everyone?) does anyone fancy a swim up from  
Port Meadow Car Park and back, Friday morning, half 9ish meet.  I've  
got until about 11, so would go up stream for a bit and back - wetsuit  
on (no heroics) - wanting to push it a little but not so much as to  
miss the experience
Louise
On 10 May 2011, at 22:48, Sefryn Penrose wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Details of Swim #2 in OSS Oxford and Reading's Swim the Thames event  
> series. This is the second swim of the OSS Swim the Thames event and  
> we will pick up where we left off at Water Eaton footbridge.  
> Hopefully by now the Thames will be deep enough to allow for more  
> swimming than wading. The swim will combine swims 3 and 4 from  
> Michael Worthington's book - 'I Love the Thames' - and will cover  
> about 3km. If the going gets too heavy we can always stop part way  
> and re-schedule the remainder for another day.
>
> We will be meeting at 10:30 on Sun 15 May 2011 in the Red Lion car  
> park at Castle Eaton (marked by the green arrow). We have promised  
> we will eat lunch there at the end of our swim.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/CastleEatonRL
>
> The swim will be from Water Eaton footbridge (marked by green arrow)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/WaterEatonFoB
>
> to Round House farm, which is upstream of the Red Lion. We can  
> shuttle up to Water Eaton where there is limited parking for 3 cars  
> - just - in a pull off from the road next to the entrance to the  
> private fishermen's carpark (marked by green arrow).
>
> http://tinyurl.com/WaterEatonParking
>
> (If no fishermen are present the green field car park makes for a  
> good outdoor changing room.) Walk up the road towards Castle Eaton  
> and take the Bridle Path to Water Eaton footbridge.
>
> We will exit the river opposite the Round House farm campsite  
> (marked by green arrow).
>
> http://tinyurl.com/RoundHouseExit
>
> Then walk down stream about 1km back to the Red Lion for lunch. The  
> Red Lion is the first pub on the Thames and the grounds go down to  
> the river so must be part of the Swim the Thames experience.  
> Following our experience with swim (wade) #1 this is going to  
> require a decent pair of 'feet' - a pair of surf boots with thick  
> grip soles - but you can get cheap shoes of the kind that you can  
> buy at the beach for very little and they'll do, either on their  
> own, or with a pair of wetsuit socks which are again quite cheap.  
> (See OSS Facebook Wading shoes discussion
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55781602829&v=app_2373072738#!/ 
> topic.php?uid=55781602829&topic=17110 ).
>
> As I (Sef) missed Swim 1, I will be catching up on this on Saturday.  
> If anyone would like to join me, drop me a line, or if you have any  
> questions (07949039099).
>
> By attending you confirm that you are a member of the OSS and have  
> read and accepted the OSS swim responsibility statement:
>  http://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/index.php?p=swimming_tips&s=responsibility
>
> See you there!
>
> Jeremy & Sef
>
> Oxford at outdoorswimmingsociety.com
>
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