Swimathon results
On Saturday, after a nice lie in and a good old english fried breakfast i completed the Swimathon Challenge. This was actually the first time that i had completed the 5k challenge either during training or since 1999. I’m pleased to say that i was aiming for a target of 1hr 15min and i managed to complete it in 1hr 11min 34sec. Having not really done the distance and not being sure how many people in the lane might slow me down it was good to finally remove those doubts. And in actual fact i did better than i could have imagined perhaps mainly due to the poor organisation of the event. At the moment i’m not sure if a lot has changed since the last time i did the event or if it was just this pool in particular but the organisation was poor. Very poor. The worst of which was probably not being told i wasn’t allowed to tumble-turn until about 300m into the 5k. As i’m sure you’ve guessed 5k is a lot of lengths and can make a difference to the time and in this case i was forced to touch-turn for each lap! This may have helped me keep my breath and swim more consistently, i don’t know. Although i didn’t notice for while, i understand that the life guards and attendants spent a good number of lengths chasing me up and down the pool trying to get my attention to ask me to stop. I believe i got my rewards on one length by soaking them during a turn. I actually would have quite liked to see that.
All in all, i’m disappointed about the organisation of the event ( and not being timed properly ) but i’m really pleased i completed it, raising £375 for charity in the process. Thank you to all of you that have donated money.
Now on to my next challenge…