Beautiful out there today lads. Went for a lunchtime dip. Crisp and with lovely sets of powerful clean waves. Also tried out my new winter swimming hat. Basically a wetsuit material hat. UNBELIEVABLE!
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That was class. Eddie is one of our own id say
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Fortyer looks very quiet this morning
It was quiet enough. Mrs. Fran goes down regularly (wahey) and says it’s been mental busy but the miserable morning kept a lot of them away today. Still plenty of DRWs down there all the same
Downright wankers? Dublin road workers?
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Dry Robe Wankers
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As in just turn up togged out in a robe and don’t bother going in?
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Turning up in one these things, standing around guffawing with the rest of your DRW mates, get in for a swim or not, doesn’t really matter. The main focus is to be seen in your expensive dryrobe
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generally worn by the folks in the big houses next to the swimming holes. not for them the vagaries of trying to use a towel in a 40 kt wind
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It’s a natural evolution from baselayers. I still remember running cross country in a singlet and shorts in muck shit and piss as a kid in winter. Horizontal sleet. Body freezing. Lungs burning. Race would be over. Back into a wet tracksuit to wait until all the races to under 18 and senior. Cross country was from under 8s up - 300m was under 8. Increased to 600m at 9 etc. Nothing to warm myself but a super can of Coke or if it was really cold a cup of soup. I still think it was amongst hardest things I ever did. I decided to exclusively become a sprinter at 11 and retired from cross country.
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you wont build resilience wearing a dryrobe, but youll spends thousands to be lectured by a charlatan about it.
Very true. As David Goggjns says you need to build mental calluses by just doing hard things.
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That photo really evokes the curglaff.
Sandyer looking resplendent in the autumn sun
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Man died Kitesurfing.
Jaysus. RIP.
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