Work, work, work...

Bit of a mad day work-wise but at least I managed 1,600m in the pool this morning before spending literally all day on the phone.

Time for cocktails methinks! Especially as I'm going to have to do more calls over the weekend.

"Today I have been mainly..." conference calling.

Good swim...

Wantage pool for a 1,600m thrash-up-and-down. Fully two minutes faster than last week which means that I'm improving or that curry really did weigh me down! No bike though - the Wantage Tri is definitely off.

Working from home so finished at a decent time and out in the sunshine with Karen, Sam and Jack who had come to visit for the day.

"Today I have been mainly..." looking out the window and wishing I was outside.

Swimming

Going swimming on a Friday morning is a brilliant start to the day (especially when working from home and spending the day sat at your desk) it just leaves you smelling of chlorine all day. No matter how carefully you shower you stink like something very chloriney.

I'm having a small whisky and water to take my mind off it.

1,600m this morning in 37:21. I haven't been keeping a record but that feels "OK" rather than anything that might break any world records... I didn't cycle as I had a bit of late night last night after going out for a curry with Mike in Newbury. As a result I'm thinking that only one outing on the bike so far this year might make the Wantage Triathlon a bit of a tall order...

"Today I have been mainly..." smelling of chlorine.

Wantage pool

Up early and home before the boys had finished breakfast.

Felt strong despite Sunday and managed to do crawl for the whole lot with no stops.

Modified my stroke in the final 600m to six beats rather than four and changed my head position in the final 350m which seemed to allow greater glide. Dramatic impact on splits.

In the pool

Torrential rain when we woke up this morning but it had slowed to a drizzle by the time we got up so I stuck with my original plan of running to the pool with a rucksack on for the first time (Berghaus bag). The rucksack felt OK once I had got all the straps pulled tight but I think it will take a bit of getting used to for any distance.

The swim felt like hard work at first but I got back into a decent rhythm after the first 750m. I had planned to do about 1,000m but Jane and the boys were a bit delayed at home so I ended up doing 1,500m. I really need to do some more work on my swim next week.