Sweeties, Pies and Ginger

Went out for a meal last night with work, so I ended up leaving the car at work and getting Karen to pick me up once the meal had finished. This meant that I had to cycle in this morning as Karen normally goes to the gym, so I wouldn’t be able to catch a lift. I’ve also started going back to the swimming pool this week before work and didn’t want to miss out on a swim. So I decided to cycle to the swimming pool, have my swim and then cycle onto work.

The cycle to the swimming pool was a complete nightmare as it was windy as hell. I was totally knackered by the time I got to the pool and sweating buckets as it had been really hard work. Because I’d woken up a bit late I didn’t get to the pool with enough time to do anything other than a two hundred metre warm up followed by a straight fifteen hundred metre swim and finally a hundred metres of breaststroke warm down. As it turned out this was perfect as doing a full hour’s session would probably have totally wiped my out for the cycle to work.

Changing from the swim to eh cycle was interesting as well as I couldn’t get my shorts or top on very easily as my body was still quite damp, even after towelling it off. I think I’ll have to get one of these suit type things as I really don’t fancy having to fiddle around with my cycling top etc when I leave the pool.

I found the cycle to work a bit of a chore, it had started raining and that coupled with the strong wind made for a pretty unpleasant ride. I also found that my calf were on the verge of cramping when I really tried to put the power down, so I had to be very careful not to end up in agony. In the end I made it to work in not too bad shape and I think I’ve learned quite a bit for this bike-swim-bike effort.