Up with The Larks, Swimming with the Fishes!

Discipline: Swim
Distance: 1000m
Time: 35 minutes
What: Easy recovery swim after tough bike ride

Hmmm - this tri training is mad. Up at sparrow-fart to get to the pool before work. I felt fine when I woke up, and stuffed two slices of toast down at 5:30am with aplomb, and set off to the pool full of vim and vigour, but then quickly lost my enthusiasm. My arms ached, and my breathing just felt really heavy and hard work.

To make matters worse - there was a man there who had a habit of standing in the shallow end, a couple of metres out from the wall, in a pose not entirely unlike someone on a surfboard. It made it really hard to tell if he was just standing there like a statue (why??) or about to set off on another length. Plus he was in the way half the time!

I had some odd experiences - the cod liver oil tablets gave me the taste of fish even though I wasn't swimming like one, and I kept getting a taste of hairspray in my mouth - maybe it was one of the blue-rinse breastroke mafia brigade whi still insist on going in the fast lane when there are lanes for medium and slow swimmers - grrrr!!