I’ve bitten the bullet and joined my local DW Fitness so I can use the swimming pool. So far so good, it’s not the cleanest but it’s much better than the public swimming pool.
This week there are 6 training sessions timetabled for the first week all of which I think are achievable. Today is Wednesday and I’ve completed two swims and a run so far. My arms and elbows are aching from the swimming but I have quite enjoyed getting into the pool and doing a few laps. There isn’t another swim scheduled until next Monday so that will give me a few days to recover. Towards the end of my swim a couple started walking up and down in the swimming lane as I was trying to do my cool down ….. grrrrrrr …….one of my pet hates!
I did a 5k run in monsoon conditions with The Sweatshop Running Community on Monday evening, it was more like a swim in fact and I had to wring out my clothes when I got home but it was actually enjoyable.
Anyone out there who is thinking about starting running I highly recommend the SRC beginners group, it’s free and a great way to get into running. There are Sweatshops all over the country, have a look here : http://www.sweatshop.co.uk/stores
I’m hopefully going to go for another 5k run with the SRC social group tonight. I’ll let you know how that goes ……
The Wednesday night run was another wet one but despite this I achieved my quickest time for the route we ran. I think I just wanted to get out of the rain as fast as possible which made me run at warp speed (for me!).
I had a rest day on Thursday and did another swim on Friday. Saturday mornings these days generally involves going to Parkrun at Willen Lake in Milton Keynes and this week was no exception. Really enjoyed the run and as soon as I got home I went out for a sixty minute bike ride even though it was blowing a gale.
Sunday was another day of rest, naughty but nice 🙂
My Strava summary for the week was :-
Onwards and upwards 🙂
Fat lass to triathlete 