It’s an assault on the middle classes 
Today my friend and I completed 100 consecutive days of swimming. Over Christmas I went by myself in a lake in Monaghan but every other day we have been sea swimming in Dublin. For day 100 lots of our friends turned up to swim with us and we had coffee and brownies and wore stupid sombreros. We also had snow. It was a great day.
For day 100 we also ran an online fundraiser in aid of Laura Lynn. The target was €500 but its well over €1000 now and it’s still going. I couldn’t post it here because it has photos of me and reveals my real name, “Tank McTank”.
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What about your trip to Achill?
A lot of inconsistencies showing up here.
He was one of the lads that went to Achill with me so we went swimming there instead. There was one day we swam over to Achill Beag, it was a brilliant day.
Different breed. Can’t just swim and fuckoff. Need to continually tell people how zen they are. Exhibit a - paragraph 3*
*the BreathewithNiall chap is sound
Swam out to the bhoy at the 40 foot this morning. Mild hypothermia by the time I got out of the water, very drunk and confused with no cold feeling. Also got a lovely email from the benefactors of our charity fundraiser saying thank you. Great morning.
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Did you put on the dry robe when you got out?
I don’t have a dryrobe but there are days when I wouldn’t begrudge anyone for having one.
Good man. How far away is the bouy? Send us on a link for the charity donation there.
I can’t send it on because it has my name on it, sorry.
The bhoy feels like a mile away when you’re swimming and your head is down low on the surface of the water but when you’re standing up on the rocks it looks close enough. I don’t know how far it is. I’d guess it was about a 20 minute swim but maybe a little longer.
Were you wearing a wetsuit? 20mins open water swim without one in today’s temperatures is lunacy.
No just gloves and boots. We had no plan when we got in the water to swim that far. I actually thought it was exceptionally cold when I first got in. Then we swam out a little further than normal and the water was very calm and easy to swim in so I thought that “fuck it”. It was a long term goal to make the bhoy but I was planning on doing it during the summer in the warmer water. The gloves and boots alone give you decent buoyancy so if it’s calm the swimming part is easy enough, much easier than in a pool. Choppiness makes it 10 times harder. A big risk is taking in a mouthful of water because that cools you down from the inside.
300m apparently. theyre markers for how close jetskis and speedboats can come to the shore in swimming areas
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Did you ever do any of the Wim Hof breathing with him?
according to the bye laws its 300m from the shore, so one way
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The reason I deleted that question was because I found this map, which is very good. 300m return to the first bhoy. They do circuits between bhoys 2 and 3 to make it a kilometre.
i was looking for something similar but couldnt find it. so i went with the legislation 
at low tide you can easily walk out to the buoy in seapoint
A belter of a day for a swim. I got in about 11.40 or so on the beach. Swam to the start of the dunes and back with the waves crashing over me. Timing your breathing to the waves and letting each one kick you on a bit. I really opened up my arms and expressed myself.
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