very excited now...2008 is here and suddenly it is no longer a 'next year' event. After a recent meeting of minds I am very pleased about the team building that is already occurring...it will prove vital when one has to 'kick ass' or 'kick overboard' (!) during the event. Simon has kindly found a long open water swim for us to do on the 13th July at Bedford. Even more kind was him asking the organiser if we could it with no wetsuits...and even kinder is the fact that it is the day after a big birthday bash I am planning to organise....won't bother going to bed that night..morning..whateva.
training is going ok...running regularly with the club and some new recruits from my sons school ( who i have now convinced to do their first triathlon in Bedford !) The swimming is very boring for me at the moment as I just find pool swimming increasingly tiresome and dull..but as the title suggests.... one has to just keep swimming.....until them freezin' pit waters beckon. Been ploughing up and down cambridge pool this evening next to the cambridge city swim club lanes. I do this on purpopse as I imagine their turbulent waters to resemble conditions one might find in the channel ....got to try and replicate that 'swimming in a washing machine' feeling. Perhaps I will do it after a big meal next week for the full -on 'nausea' effect.Unfortunately an article in 220 this month (highlighted by a fellow team member-thanks !) discussed the delights of swimming through raw sewage with 'hard bits' whilst swimming the Channel...still waiting to remove this picture from my head..so whilst swimming I was imagining what wise seafarer 'Reg' would look like whilst guiding us through the crystal blue (?!) swell....must catch some zzzzzz's now-all this training is doing me in
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