#long swim

[chasingkairosxx]

i swear to you i’ll find a way to make it back to being myself, again. i just got tired on this long swim.

-b.k.

[thedaily-beer]

Kern River’s Long Swim Double IPA (Picked up at Whole Foods in Tustin). A 4 of 4. One of the better big IPAs I’ve had in quite a while. Really creamy body and sticky lacing with a ton of various hop notes represented quite powerfully in the nose. Largely citrus notes but quite a bit of earthy qualities too. Firmly bitter in the finish, and well-balanced with some nice sweetness in the middle.

[tecmarcos]

Lewis Pugh and Michael Gove team up to save the world's oceans from plastic

Lewis Pugh and Michael Gove team up to save the world’s oceans from plastic

After 49 days, endurance swimmer and environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh has completed his challenge to swim the full length of the English Channel – the first person to do so wearing just goggles and trunks.

Many people – including himself – doubted whether he’d ever make it to Dover. Even when he got there he had to battle torrential rain and choppy seas as he neared the finish line.

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[tecmarcos]

Long Swim: Is Lewis Pugh ready?

Long Swim: Is Lewis Pugh ready?

Endurance athlete Lewis Pugh will begin to tackle an unprecedented swim across the entire English Channel.

Over, 50 days he will plough through 350 miles of chilly waters.

Sky’s Science and Medical correspondent Thomas Moore puts Lewis’ body to the test in a physiology lab to find out what hazards he will face both physically and mentally over the course of the challenge.

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[burlveneer-music]

Joseph Shabason - Tite Cycle & Long Swim - some ambient jazz for a Sunday night

In 2017, with so-called Nu-Jazz in full view, saxophonist Joseph Shabason is solely pulling the thread left hanging by the marriage of minimalism and jazz in the previous century. His debut LP, Aytche, reveals this cross-pollination to be as fertile and captivating as ever, fitting as well-- or better-- into this decade as any other. Shabason builds a bridge off of the precipice his forbears established, skirting jazz, ambient, and even new age with the same deliberate genre-ambiguity that made their work so interesting. 

Shabason intended for this album to be heard with Eno’s “as ignorable as it is interesting” philosophy, but the mood here is far too singular to exist as background. As with so much of the best contemplative music, there is therapy in Aytche, but the flies in the ointment make the moments of peace all the more descriptive and potent by contrast.

[thequantumlyunstableman]

Vanishing Friends 2-8 Oct

We swam onwards. Some of us easier than others. Tam, whose suit propelled them forward, ended up towing the trolls behind them. But eventually we all got tired, even Pem. The city was much further away then we would have hoped. "Maybe we could go back and get another wagon?" Crag said.

"Another...what?" Pem asked.

"A transport," I said. "He wants another transport."

"Are you kidding me? Do you think they're going to let me take another one out? I barely had permission to take that one. The only reason I was allowed that one was because they wanted you all out of there so badly. Bringing you back will just get me in trouble."

"More trouble than dying out here in the middle of the ocean?" I asked.

"Yes. A lot more."

"Oh."

We kept swimming because what other choice did we have. We had been going for a few hours before someone noticed Crag was gone. "Where did he go?" I asked.

"I don't know," Toleuk said. "He was here one minute and then he wasn't."

"How long ago was that?"

"I don't know."

"When did you last see him?"

"Hard to say. It's not like there's a sun to tell the time down here."

"He was with us when we stopped," the Sheriff said. "Did he start swimming with us?"

"Wait," Tam interrupted. "Where are the other deputies?"

We turned to see that we were indeed a few men down. "Where did they go?" I asked. "Did anyone see them leave?"

"They wouldn't have just wandered off," the Sheriff said. "I know my deputies."

"Then where are they?" I asked.

And that's when the giant clamshell erupted from the ground, opened its shell, and enveloped Domoban, pulling him back under the ground. The Sheriff raced to save him, but he was much too late. The giant troll couldn't swim anywhere near fast enough. But he wouldn't give up. The Sheriff began to dig into the dirt. "There's no point," Pem said. "He's gone. The clammine's have him."

"You mean they're dead?" the Sheriff asked.

"Not necessarily," Pem replied. "That all depends on the Lowardens."

"You know who has my deputies?"

"You know where the blip is?" I asked. "You know where Gnomenasher is?"

"I wasn't certain before, but there seems to be no doubt now. This is Lowardenite technology. And that is the last place we wanted to go."

to be continued next week

or everyday on @QuantumUnstable

[gengeneral]

[jwong2000]

Swim Report - Belmont Shores

Swim Report – Belmont Shores

4,525 yd (2.6 miles), 1:26 moving time. The Club joined more friends at Long Beach’s Belmont Shore, early on a overcast but warm Sunday morn. Even though I’m not signed up for a long course Ironman, I do love long, open water swims with my friends. Some of the full Ironman man crew started early at 7am, while the rest of us started at 8am. The water was warm. I was sweating inside my wetsuit. I…

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