I'm a gulper with nice elbows!

Judy - a friend and swimming teacher came and watched me swim this week with the aim of making me more effecient in the water and it turns out that I'm a gulper (I take big gulps of air with each stroke and waste energy blowing it back out) I need to work on relaxing and letting the air trickle out - I can see that going out of the window when I'm fighting with 1499 other poeple for the same stretch of water! I do have nice elbows during the recovery phase though wahoo!!

I'm writing this weeks blog from a T'internt cafe in Hastings where I'm staying tonight before the Hastings half marathon tomorrow. The Hastings Half was the first half marathon I ever did so I'm hoping to imrove on that time from last year (1.45) and maybe have another go at sub 1.40 if it all goes well.

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Swimming and Kebab

I couldn't do any running or cycling yesterday as my legs were still sore from Sunday so I did my first timed swim - just over 18 minutes for 800m which is OK as I didn't really push it and just concentrated on my stroke. I decided to to treat nyself to a Kebab, well meat and chips and as it was before 10.30 I could eat in which was novel and it was served on plate with cutlery which was extremely bizzarre!

Reading Half Marathon 2

Things didn't really go to plan on Sunday - I had the strange sensation of feeling thirsty and needing a wee before the start and although there was plenty of water available the same couldn't be be said for toilets so that's how I started. I never really felt comfortable and so never hit the 7.30 mile pace I wanted and was 30 seconds off right from mile 1 I pretty much continued at that pace and resigend myself to not beating my target of 1.40 round about mile 5 and from then on just tried to enjoy the atmosphere. Little did I know that while I was running, my Mum bless her, was being interviewed on the radio - she couldn't make it to watch so texted a good luck message to BBC Radio Berkshire who promptly called her for an interview (her first thought upon answering the phone was "I'm not dressed yet!") I ended up finishing in 1.45.44 and was pretty happy with that for my first half marathon this year - next up Hastings in 2 weeks.