Monday 23 November 2009

Making the best of it



Yes, I surfed that.

Surfing in the UK sometimes feels like an uphill struggle. When the water's warm the surf is bad, and crowded; then just as the autumn swells arrive it starts to get cold and the days get shorter and shorter and makes weekend warriors out of most of us. So when you get the chance to get in you've got to make the best of it, whatever the conditions.

Last Tuesday I made the mistake of putting my wetsuit on at home instead of at the beach, only to get there and discover Fistral was completely blown out, and the bay was nearly flat. I had two choices - get in anyway, or arrive for work two hours early in a dry wetsuit; so I went for a paddle and kooked around for an hour. The waves were barely describable as surf, but I still spent the day with a satisfied salty smile on my face.

2 comments:

  1. and you didn't even have anyone to surf with that day as your surfing partner couldn't get his lazy arse out of bed. :-(

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  2. Yeah now that you mention it, the title of this post should have been 'Mark Leary made me surf this on my own'..!

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