I was supposed to swim with a boat on SUnday to the Isle of Wight and back and around for 10 hrs but that was called off due a shocking weekend of weather. So i managed to rearrange a few things and swim for a tad under 9 hrs on thursday in the sea - longest swim to date, longest sea swim obviously. Strange leaving the house at 930 and not getting back until 715 with just swimming in the middle!
I am now feeling a little more confident but i always do after a long swim, only for it to evaporate after a week or so... I felt cold for the first 1hr 15 minutes again but then didnt really notice it after that which was good. I did feel starving though and dont know how people have been surviving with the food schedules they have in place for their channel swims. I just wanted a large sandwich but no one else ever seems to!!! I did get fed up of sweet drinks and gels by 8 h rs so really didnt know what i wanted bar a sandwich...
not really sure of my pace in the sea and not really sure how i am going to work it out. The swim with LIz seemed to be about 3km per hour in calmish sea waters so perhaps it is not much slower than my lake swim speed - c 56-57 minutes per KM over a long distance of 5hrs +
The massage hurt after this swim but definitely worth having.. I swum again on saturday early evening in rough conditions and a strong tide - only for 70 minutes - but it seemed to hit the muscles as i felt as though i was fighting to move in one direction...
Only c 5 weeks to go... I think i will have the least prepared team on the boat but i have time to fine tune that! My Dad wanted to know if the boat pilot would be ok for him to drop a fishing line over when he is not required to help me and then wandered if he could make a quick stop in EastEnders in Calais to pick up some duty free - why waste the journey?! unbelievable!
No comments:
Post a Comment