2013: Tri-ing something new

[marathondan]

Another week in the bag, nothing much to report. Progressed a little on the lunchtime swim, increasing the crawl / back ratio. Noticed I'd shaved a couple of minutes off my 1000m time, but then afterwards realised I'd probably skipped a couple of lengths by accident.

Turns out the chap who’s currently painting our hall and stairs has done the Windsor Triathlon. He said it was the worst experience of his life. He didn’t clarify whether that included blowing up at 9 miles in the Las Vegas marathon after missing 2 months of training. Apparently the current is a bit nasty in the Thames. And he classes himself as a medium ability swimmer (i.e. a lot better than me). Was I a silly billy to enter a 1500m river swim for my first event? Time will tell.