Today is a swimming day. I have to admit that getting out of bed this morning was extremely difficult. I had a very long and difficult negotiation meeting yesterday as part of my job, which took far more out of me than I had anticipated (the fact that it lasted twice as long as scheduled didn't help). In any case, I did haul myself upright, into clothes and onto the train which, thankfully, was on time and not full to the rafters (do trains have rafters?) this morning. However, something went wrong on the way as I ended up getting to the pool ten minutes later than normal (the train may have been slow, or I may have been slow) and spent the entire swim panicking about whether I was going to complete my session in time to get to work.
I started off in the slow lane this morning. The pool wasn't very busy, but there were enough people in the medium lanes that adding me would have made them a bit crowded. I did my 4 x 60m warm up and then did 4 x 30m of those horrible side crawl kicks. This time, I was prepared and didn't back into the wall or scrape anything on the lane ropes. The main part of the session was supposed to be 500m front crawl without stopping, but because of the 30m pool and the resultant odd number (17) of lengths to get over the 500m mark, I actually swam 540m of front crawl without stopping. Then it was onto 5 x 60m front crawl with 15 second breaks (for which I moved up to the medium lane), followed finally by 60m of breaststroke and 60m of best stroke front crawl as a cool down.
I felt like I could have swum forever today. Then I looked at the clock and realised I nearly had been swimming for ever and I'd better get a shift on. My total distance this morning was another massive 1.32km, which takes my overall distance for swimming a gigantic (and very precise) 13.00km.
My fundraising, however, isn't quite going as well at the moment as my training! The triathlon is less than a month away now, so it would be really great if you could give me some motivation to keep going by clicking the Justgiving link on the right hand side of the page and sponsoring me for the triathlon by making a donation to Marie Curie Cancer Care - we're not far off the threshold for that swimming hat picture now; could you be the one who makes sure it happens?
On Wednesday, after all the trials and tribulations of my cycle into work, I had an amazing ride home. As usual, I forgot to start my watch until a little way into the ride, but it wasn't all that far in. My ride home usually takes me between 35 and 40 minutes, depending on the traffic and whether I get stuck at traffic lights and so on. On Wednesday, it took me 28 minutes. I put this down to the new shoes giving me more power transfer and making me more efficient as for there to be that much of a difference all of a sudden, it can't just be down to my improved fitness. The ride home was 7.42km, taking my total distance on the bike to 137.46km.
Tomorrow is a rest day, as I have exciting training plans for Sunday and Monday, so check back then to see what I've been up to!
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