Well sadly I was only able to go down for the Sunday as I was working on Saturday and Monday. As I was absent the day before I was given extra laps and I had to do 8 laps, a total swim of 10 km with a feed break after 2 hours, my first taste of the Famous maxim, it was served up with a dash of apple juice and there were no ill effects felt for the rest of the swim.My final swim time was about 2 hours and 40 minutes.
All in all it was a good swim, did not have any stiffness and my shoulders felt fine, had a bit of a sore wrist but that seems to be getting better.
Fortuneately I had my long suffering wife down as my driver and boy was I glad as I crashed out in the car on the way back, stopping to visit a few friends and the man of the house is a triathlete so I joined him for his swimming training so just to end the days training I swam another 3km with some triathletes. That was my warm down for the day.
I will now be out of action for a weekand or so thanks kindly to work which is funding this escapade so can't grumble too much. The sad thing is I would love to be out training but may have to do gym work instead but I don not really like that.
Will hopefully be back in Dover mid June and I hope to sneak off to Heron Lake for a few sneaky Km in the lake.
Instructions from the general
I'm the confused one scratching my chin
The Channel Swim "WHY?"
The 1st reason
Last year in September my brother must have been bored at work and got hold of me at the office and asked,
“Hey Graeme, how about doing something interesting next year?”
I said
“okay what is it”
Spencer
“How about we swim the channel!!”
Me
“Are you nuts, what drugs have you been on?”
That was the beginning of a conversation that was to change the way my summer for 2008 panned out, much to the disgust of a few friends and much to the detriment of my socialising but hey looking at the summer so far, I suppose it is not a bad thing.
After this conversation, I started to think about where I was in life and that I was a bit overweight: clinically obese according to my doctors. At that time I was training about 10 km a week and the nurse didn’t quite know how to break the news to me about the above fact.
I was also suffering from lower back trouble and it was really annoying me, thanks to the desk job!!!!!
I am the sort of person who cannot just go to the gym so I figured that if I wanted to tone up a bit and strengthen my body in general, this might be a good plan.
The 2nd reason
The other reason I am doing this is the fact that I will be able to raise some money for the desperate people of a country that has been torn apart by a dictator. With unemployment at about 90% and life expectancy in the mid-thirties, the country has gone from being one of the fastest growing economies in Africa in the 1990s, to having the highest inflation of any country in the world, currently sitting at 1 400 000%.
From breadbasket to basket case all in the space of 10 short years.
This country is
Even for the extremely wealthy, the everyday things like going to the shop to buy milk, bread, meat, eggs, butter, vegetables, fuel. Being able to have a romantic dinner with electric lights as opposed to candles, or just have electricity for more than about 2 hours a day is only a distant memory
Butterfly training
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2 comments:
what with all this mention of strokes im not surprised your wrist was aching - have you discussed THAT with your doctor? ;)
Hey good luck with your channel swim :)
Maggie
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