Training has been going quite well. Still averaging about 10k per week over 3 sessions. However I went down to Cornwall on holiday with my parents for a week where I did a lot of surfing and not so much swimming. Plus I was wearing a wetsuit so I can't really claim that I was doing much cold water acclimatisation.
I spent the Halloween weekend on a surf trip in Pembrokeshire with the London Surf Club - not much swimming but lots of surfing and a great Halloween party. The full moon did strange things to me.