I was going to leave it until the end of the month to give you my first update on my training so far this year but sometimes the craziness is too good not to share!!!
You will be aware from my last post that my swimming is a bit of a "work in progress' at the moment. It's not great, but it's a whole lot better since the fear of Ironman Wales forced me to focus on sorting it out. So much better, in fact, that I have a nervous confidence that, provided conditions aren't too vile in the sea at Tenby, I should get out of the water in enough time to hit the cut-off. I also know that I could improve much more on that position by continuing to work on my drills in the pool and focusing on my form. The problem, dear reader, is that I can have a tendency to be a tad lazy. Yes, you read that right. I confess. If I think I have done enough, I tend to rest back on my laurels and think, yeah... okay, I've got this. But it doesn't have to be a problem, you see... because I know myself well enough to understand this... and play myself at my own game... by playing a trump card!! My trump card normally means setting myself an even scarier target and making it public... so here we go!! Dear reader, I have signed up for a 10,000m swim in November!! How cool* is that?!!!!! (*for "cool" read "insanely petrifying", or "OMG bonkers", or just "plain insane") The swim is at the London Aquatics Centre (as used in the 2012 Olympics) and comprises 10 x 10 laps up and down the 50m pool. I am sticking with that description as it doesn't sound quite so scary as "swimming an entire 10km", "covering 6.2 miles of front crawl", or "bubble, bubble, breath, repeat for about 4hrs and 40mins" ... all of which are also, actually, what it is about!!! What have I done???!!! Dear reader, what I believe I have done is give myself the incentive to get my swimming properly nailed this year! My hope is that it will help me to swim much longer swims during the open-water season this summer in order to get the miles in... so much so that, hopefully, by the time I come out of the water at Tenby in September, I will be thinking it was a short swim... which should make the first part of Ironman Wales feel that little bit easier... Here's hoping anyway! Watch this space!!! By the way, it is my first Aquathlon next Sunday - a 400m swim followed by a 10km run. Eeeek! I'll let you know how it goes!
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