{"id":22894,"date":"2016-09-08T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22894"},"modified":"2016-09-14T18:40:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:40:44","slug":"swell-sup-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/swell-sup-surfing\/","title":{"rendered":"Swell SUP Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impatient Al&#8230; Yep, that&#8217;s me. The surf was looking amazing on Wednesday\u00a0afternoon but I had to wait for Morgan to get home before I could get in the sea. In the end I met him from the bus on my bike so that I could give him a &#8216;backie&#8217; home. It was quicker than walking and with all our surf gear ready to go we were soon on the beach and surfing our socks off.<\/p>\n<p>The swell had dropped off a little by now so there was no use for my little 6&#8217;4&#8243; thruster but the waves were perfect for SUP surfing. 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