A few of my thoughts on my swim of Hawaii Big Island to Maui yesterday.

It was so rough I have never sum in water that rough ever before, I thought they were going to pull the swim for the first 3 hours, then when it became light i realised that they weren’t.
The waves came from every direction. They were huge, I counted ten strokes from the trough to the crest, and breaking. Many I had to duck under like when you go out in the surf at the beach, the paddler was picked up and washed 75 m away then spent ten minutes fighting his way back to me then washed off again, he is 23 years old and races canoes. Some waves just broke over the top of me and some caught my right shoulder when I breathed and sent me spinning onto my back with enough momentum to continue to roll me right back onto my front.
The current was strong, spring tides, some of which helped but when it didn’t it was really against me and i had huge trouble making headway especially towards then end. I think I probably could have done the swim a lot quicker the way the weather had been the day before.
I am incredible sore, my right lung felt like it was huge and filled my rib cage the left also sore. I have just woken up my nose is running like crazy with a pink blood stained mucus.

For those who follow their weight while doing marathon swims, my weight was 127lb the day before the swim and 127lb two hours after the swim.

Thanks everyone for all your kind comments and text messages, it realy makes us feel special.

Penny.

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