#open water swimming

[remembertheplunge]

A day in the life

September 24, 2022 Saturday 9:40pm

Although I should have stayed home, cleaned and worked cases, the Ocean Goddess called and I had to answer.

I swam one half mile in Aquatic Park, at the behest of Ken, who rescued me the 2nd hypothermic shock incident that I had. For that, he said that I owe him a beer.

He said to eat oatmeal and to dink warm tea pre swim for fuel.

He also said to swim to the flag once, and then to get out of the water and see how you feel.

Hypothermia is insidious. Euphoria proceeds the crash.

Another man said to touch finger to thumb while swimming. If you can do that, you don’t have hypothermia. Hypothermia is called the claw.

Another Dolphin Club member said that my ‘Ken” episode (Second session of hypothermic shock) was posted on line as a warning on the Dolphin Club Website. My name was not mentioned.

Spent the day in part in 1988.  (Journal review)

I came out in the Modesto Gay Bars in June. A boyfriend from Mendecino was with me.

I had forgotten all that.

And, the circle Sparkler dance we did around John Hickman on his 31st and last birthday.

Naked bicyclists were just past Jefferson turnout near the Dolphine club as I returned to my car to get my swim suit today.

Aquatic Park. I Loved it!

Later, some of them were near the Twin Peaks Bar on the Castro with nothing on!

Four guys walking up Market Street to the Twin Peaks called it “the crystal coffin” which they said that the Peaks deserved.

End of entry

Note:

This entry is a “day in the life’ entry.

I’m a member of the Dolphin Club in San Fransisco. The Dolphin Club is located on Jefferson Street. It is an ocean swimming and rowing club.

Hypothermic shock occurs when , due to over exposure to cold water, your core body temperature drops below 95 degrees. Your hands can freeze in a claw position. Your heart slows and can stop. You can die. 

Aquatic Park is a small bay Across the street from Ghirardelli’s in San Francisco, Ca. There are a series of buoys across the bay. The last one has a flag. The Dolphin Club sits at the western end of the bay. A swim from the club beach to the flag and back is about one half mile.

John Hickman was a gay man that I met through Aids support Hand to Hand in Sacramento. John had Aids and eventually died of it. Most likely a group of we Hand to Hand volunteers did a circle dance around him with sparklers on his last birthday.

Before Aids, John had been an extremely good looking man. He was from Michigan.

The Twin Peaks is a bar at Market and Castro Streets in San Fransisco. It’s where I met my partner Jim in 1997. Older gay men tend to be the main clientele, thus the nick name “crystal coffin."

My Mendocino boyfriend was a little older than me and lived in Mendocino. I drove up there and stayed with him one time. He apparently came to see me in Modesto and we went out to the bars in 1988. I haven’t heard from him in decades.

#journaling #writing #gay relationship #open water swimming #Dolphin Club #Hypothermic shock #naked bicyclists #9/24/2022 #Aids #Aids support #Aquatic park

[clemsfilmdiary]

Nyad (2023, Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)

1/6/24

#Nyad #Diana Nyad #Annette Bening #Jodie Foster #Rhys Ifans #Karly Rothenberg #Jeena Yi #Luke Cosgrove #Eric T. Miller #2020s #drama #biography #true story #sports #swimming #swimmers #ocean #athletes #determination #open water swimming #sharks #jellyfish #lesbian #friendship #Cuba #Caribbean #extreme sports #Florida #oscar bait #training

[kdhume]

I've never cared about a video game before but a friend showed me Subnautica the other day and now I've played 14+ hours of it because it's like open water swimming in clear water but I can do it without the long covid post-exertional malaise that's limited my real swimming for the last 3+ years

#i miss being surprised by rocks and thinking they're sea monsters okay #and swimming through underwater arches #long covid #open water swimming

[deweydecimalchickens]

I own a LOT of No Fear brand sportswear for someone who has so much fear.

Today's is a wetsuit, because I think nighttime in December is for jumping in lakes.

#Open water swimming #So much fear #Just constant #To be clear #I haven't shopped at Sports Direct in years #But I don't throw stuff out if it's still good

[confessions-of-an-old-cassette]

Open water swimmers (me) seeing a huge shark (a piece of seaweed) that will surely kill them while they are helpless in the water (it might touch my leg)

#swimming #open water swimming #we are a fearful bunch

[aliceinknittingland]

Although you might be forgiven for thinking we're still at the height of summer, those of us jumping in the sea and rivers have certainly begun to notice a change in water temperature and before you know it, we'll need to be cracking out the woollies.

So for the open water swimmers among you or in your lives, I have two patterns specifically for such activity: the Winter Dippers' Mittens, with long cuffs to cover the wrists and fingers free for fumbling with zips and toggles.

And the "Into The Sea I Go" woolly hat, modelled expertly by two Norfolk swimmers who kindly allowed me to share their pictures 🥰

Happy knitting (but enjoy the sunshine while it's here!) ☀️🌊

#handmade #hygge #knitstagram #knittingland #knitting #knitspiration #sea swimming #Open water swimming #wild swimming

[swim-culture-is]

Open water swim culture is everyone on the beach giving you weird looks while your trying to practice

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#lmao that is so iconic #tbh i wish we had open water closer to where i live i feel like it would be fun #there is no water where i live though lmao #swimblr #swim #swimming #competitive swimming #swimmer #swim problems #swim culture is #swim team #swim culture #swim meet #open water #open water swim culture #open water swimming

[panoramicireland]

Swimming today on the Irish coast, the heatwave is here but the water isn't really that warm at all. Still it's nice to have hot and calm conditions to enjoy saltwater swimming.

#ireland #vsco #landscape #vscocam #irish #photography #photographers on tumblr #travel #nature #seascape #swimming #sea swimming #open water swimming #irish coast #irish heatwave #waves #ocean swimming #panoramic ireland

[qlqniel]

Chopping iced water

Salthill, Galway, February 2018

#photographers on tumblr #original photography #photography #nature photography #sports photography #galway #ireland #cold water swimming #open water swimming #swimming #cold water #winter #sea #blue #ice blue #cold #sports

[smol-tendiez]

“you don’t need an expensive bathing suit for just a silly little swim competition at the beach, I can beat you while wearing a string bikini” ok girl let’s see

#swim girl #swim problems #swimmer #ocean swim #open water swimming #competitive swimming #oceanman swim #oceanmanswim #oceanman #triathlon #triathletes

[kamilbialous]

Jessi Harewicz photographed for Montecristo magazine. New edit on my portfolio site is now up.

Kamil Bialous Photographer.

www.kamilbialous.com

#open water swimming #kamil bialous

[remembertheplunge]

What are your 3 words for 2023

Grinder poll at 3am 12/14/2017

What are your 3 words for 2017?

I replied:

Harsh

Beautiful ]

Extreme 

In 2017, I got very involved with the homeless, letting several of them live for brief times in my house and passing out bags of food in over 10 cities.

I wrote the 2017 "3 words" in the margin  of the December 14 page of the book “A Year with Hafiz”.

As the years passed I wrote 3 word for other years in the margin on that page as follows:

2019.  12/14/2019

Revealing 

Answered

Harvest

In 2019 my death penalty client Rigo Gomez entered a felony plea, was released in October to rehab  and then went to work for Community Resource Initiative, a mitigation team that assists on some of my cases, including Rigo’s.

2021

12/14/2021

Journals

Stockton 

Gym

By 2021, I had begun work on the book from my journals and started work as a criminal defense attorney in Stockton.

I hit the gym most days

2022

12/14/2022

Open

Water

Swim

In July 2022 I began swimming in the ocean in Aquatic Park in San Fransisco. In September 2022 I did my first swim from just off Alcatraz island to the San Fransisco Yacht Harbor. Rigo Gomez did the swim with me.

Swimming in the ocean is known as open water swimming.

2023

12/15/2023

Shock

Blog 

Victory

In 2023, my Sister Zoe died in May. I am still in shock.

My Tumblr Blog began on February 5, 2023

I got a not guilty  victory in a Felony Jury Trial on November 3, 2023

Note:

Grinder is a Gay Dating app.

#journaling #A Year With Hafiz #3 words for the year #Grinder #homeless work #homelessness #jury trial #not guilty verdict #criminal jury trial #open water swimming #Death penalty #12/14/2017

[penaltybox14]

The time of the swim is fast approaching!  This morning’s practice swim was a cool 2.2km, so just about 1/3 of what I’ll need to do to meet my swimming goal.  As for the fundraising goal, that comes from folks like you, in whatever amount you can spare.  Right now we’re at $225 and the fundraising minimum is $350 - that could be $13 from just 10 people.  I know it’s hard these days, but this money is being raised to support the only critical care air ambulance in Maine - a profoundly essential service for anyone who lives, works, or plays in the Pine Tree State. 

#fundraiser #fundraising #gofundme #lifeflight #medflight #critical care #nursing #nurses #paramedics #ems #emslife #maine #massachusetts #swimming #swimmer #open water swimming #wild swimming #money #cross for lifeflight

[deweydecimalchickens]

Starting the new year as I mean to go on:

- cold, wet and muddy

- squeeing at a stranger about Rivers of London

- sharing space with geese better than I do with humans

- blatantly breaking the rules

- forgetting a key bit of equipment

- getting distracted mid-sentence by a grebe

- shrieking and swearing

- wearing a lot of black rubber

- earwormed by "baby blood and baby bones/baby butter for the baby scones"

- underwater

#open water swimming

[shalomanna]

#allswimers #swimmers #swimming #open water swimming #alligator lighthouse #Islamorada #Florida #Florida key #Youtube

[aliceinknittingland]

N E W | P A T T E R N

Winter Dippers' Mittens.

With long, wrist-warming cuffs and soft, squishy colourworked hands, your fingers are free to buckle, tie and button after plunging into the open water and reminding yourself you're alive...

Knitted in Paintbox Yarns 100% wool worsted superwash, and useful for stashbusting leftovers. Knit a matching / contrasting pair.

Happy dipping / knitting 🥰

https://www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/winter-dippers-mittens-knitting-pattern-by-alice-neal

#knitting pattern #Knitting #Mittens #open water swimming