Friday Swim and Race Kit Pickup!

The plan looked good on paper. Sleep in for an extra half hour then head out to the pool and join in for the last hour of the swim. Good idea. Get a little extra rest before going into the big 30k 'Around the Bay' race weekend.

It didn't work exactly as planned. I woke up at the usual time and thought, "This is usually when I have to get up, but I don't have to." Back to sleep for a half hour and thought, "This is when I'm usually finishing breakfast", and then rushed to eat breakfast. It just went on like that. I got to the pool 15 minutes later than usual.

That didn't work out all so well because basically, I missed 400 meters of the 600 meter warm up and went straight into a 400 meter time trial. The good new is, I have a good reason for finishing slowly! I think I did 8:58 or something like that.

Oh well, most of the rest of the swim was with the pull buoy, or with pull-buoy and paddles. It sure was odd when Bern swam under the lane marker up behind and tickled my feet for a while. At first I thought it was the guy behind me catching up, but when I couldn't get ahead, and then both feet were being tickled . . . . . !

We're off to pick up race kits this morning. YEA - The season begins! It feels like it's been a really long time since we raced. Missing that early half marathon in Peterborough made the winter feel like it went on forever!