Well after 3 weeks in the hinterland of minimal training due to work commitments and then my body finally getting grumpy with me and showing me that it does not really appreciate all this excercise. 2 weeks ago I picked up a wrist injury (Commonly known as RSI and no, for your information it is the wrong hand!!!! for all those with perverse minds) Anyway it has been bothering me for a while and I have been for acupuncture on it, due another course of it soon.
Then last week, when I was looking forward to getting back into my training schedule, I was in the middle of my sets doing sprints and breathed once and managed to pull the muscles in the left of my neck. then had to give up as I could not move my neck. The following day after a massage and some liberal application of Ibuprofen gel, I went training again. I learnt that as long as I slowed my stroke down a fair amount and used my body rotation to breath, instead of my neck, things looked up and I managed to get through my set. My wrist still gives me trouble and I have been training with it strapped up and not really pushing big distances or speeds.
This will all change this weekend when I am back in Dover under the iron grip of Freda and will be looking forward albeit a bit scared as to the training she is going to dish out and if I survive that then I will go for a night swim and see how that goes.
I look forward to updateing after the weekend. Till then .......
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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