Monday 28 January 2008

Half a kilometre in half an hour

I was planning a swim on the way home from work today, before heading straight out to a gig in Oxford, but the Wantage pool isn't free for general swimming until 8pm, so I popped into Didcot at lunchtime instead. Luckily my 1pm meeting was postponed until Wednesday which meant I wouldn't have to miss out on swimming today (and get in that all important practice before my next lesson on Wednesday). I managed 20 lengths: 10 breaststroke; 4 crawl; 6 breaststroke. I've kind of got the hang of what to do with my feet, but they're not quite there yet. Still, it's a lot better than a few weeks ago. Crawl was a bit rubbish, every time I tried to swim with my head down and only breath every 4 strokes, I ended up getting water up my nose. Perhaps I was instinctively trying to breath in when breathing out under water?! Ah well, I've all that to learn.

Back to the running tomorrow.

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Running 13.1 miles in memory of Carl

I ran the Silverstone Half Marathon on 15th March 2009. I managed the 13.1 mile course in 2 hours and 4 minutes. Not a bad effort for my first Half Marathon! I returned in 2010 to run it in 1 hour 54 minutes, and plan to do it again in 2011. I decided to run this in aid of The PSC Trust and PSC Support in memory of my brother Carl, who died from liver failure in November 1997. If you'd like to sponsor me for this - please email me at pscrun@ulen.me.uk PSC Trust
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