Hey there.
Blog update time guys.
Today I went swimming, the first swim of the new year. I’m not a strong swimmer in fact I prefer to think of it as ‘drowning with style’ but I’m getting better. Olympiad I’ll never be, but at least I can do something more entertaining than tread water.
Limited financial comfort relegate me to council gym facilities. This means having to share limited pool time (a 2-3 hour window in the evening) with children’s swimming lessons and a whole range of different ability swimmers. I’m pretty much used to this, and as I said I’m not the strongest of swimmer. So I’ll identify (quite like the terminator does) the next slowest swimmer in the pool and follow them up and down in the same lane.
However, today there were a couple of really competent swimmers in the pool who glided through the water with ease, one was going really quick, which is fine (go Michael Phelps!) but then he started zig zagging across the pool dodging other swimmers (well actually it was them dodging him as they were stopping to let him past). If you couple this in with the group of four (2 girls, 2 boys) who’d swim a length then stop and chat etc, then it all got quite stressed. Thankfully though speedy Gonzales soon got out (probably spent) and things eased up a bit.
Anyway, 35 minutes done 20 lengths swam!
Next weight loss. My target for the end of Jan was to lose 7lbs, well things have been a little slow in that department, I’d stayed the same. But this morning I’ve lost 3lbs.
I’ve found having my weigh in day on a Friday morning seems to help me as come Monday (the start of the working week) I’m already into my stride with the healthy eating lark so don’t feel extra stress and don’t feel as guilty if I decide to have a cheat meal on the Monday evening.
My mileage target for Jan…. well I’ll talk about that once Jan is over with.
