wetsuit swimming...

Saturday was a whole new experience of wetsuit swimming. Very weird at first when you enter the water, but does have a level of buoyancy that helps with speed. Needed to practice crawl and breathing as feeling way to reliant in the old faithful breaststroke technique. But overall need to make an effort with at least 2 early morning swimming sessions per week.
Mornings mainly due to the fact that easier to do length's, no kiddies, and the other 'triathletes' swim then, looking all serious like automated seals speeding through the pool....intimidating yet hopefully will incite the competitive streak to help me not feel so much of an impostor!

Not a bad week over all on the countdown, all things considered. Thursday's run in Regents Park was good, despite not remembering the Gamin to track heart rate and kms. But managed 2 loops, so a 9k in 58Min's and despite the warm weather didn't feel any pain next day. (apart from the post-exercise headache that evening---not good)

So week 1 of 8 has seen me achieve a total of 19K running, 12k cycling and 1k swimming, + 2 cardio classes all in 5 hours and 35 minutes. A beautiful example of time management :)

Evan's cycles in Chalk Farm must named and shamed for selling me a helmet yesterday, with security tags attached....now have to go all the way back to the shop to get them to remove them!