Week 1 - Sunday 03 Aug – Swimming – The bright side

Okay time for a bit of stock taking and a bit of positive mental attitude.

Heres a list of pluses:

• It’s better to have a light week and get over an injury than have a bigger injury and miss H&B.
• I’d liked to have stuck to the schedule I worked out but I had been thinking there wasn’t enough upper body work in it. So I’ll put me thinking cap on and work something out for the week ahead.
• I’m extremely fortunate that I can call on an expert to give me injury advice.
• I still have 6 weeks to train.

I just realised I hadn’t mentioned how the pool session today went.

I decided to do 40 lengths of water walking rather than swimming strokes to simulate running through mud. This worked out really well, I got a great pace up and could really feel me calves and ankles being targeted in a way that all the other exercises didn’t.

I didn’t feel sore afterwards because I was in water and more importantly I don’t think it affected me knee adversely. Maybe this is a leg workout I can do instead of running.

Me daughter kept up with me the whole way, she was doing shorter lengths because she’s too short to walk to the end of the pool. She’s only 12 so it was a great achievement, well done sweetheart. Unfortunately me other daughter was laid up with a stomach bug so we had to leave her at home.

I’ll talk later about these two amazing girls and how they're miles ahead of me in fitness than I was when I was their age (I’m acutely aware I’ll probably be the only person who will ever read this so I’m not really sure who I’m talking to here, but you never know).

Feeling a bit more positive about week 2 than I was earlier.