Not too bad

Well I survived my swim this morning. There were some moments there when I thought I might not, but in the end I got though. That is not to say that it wasn't pretty tough, it certainly was. And also not to say that I didn't struggle, I very much did that. But for some reason I also really enjoyed it.

I often struggle at the Wednesday swim, it is a tough session and so struggle is kind of the point. Sometimes that really gets me down, but other times you finish the session with a real sense of accomplishment. It sets you off on your morning with a nice little buzz. This morning was one of those.

Getting down to the pool the initial signs were ominous, with the set being called the 12 efforts of Christmas. Basically the session went something like this 600m, 550m, 500m, 450m, 400m, 350m, 300m, 250m, 200m, 150m, 100m, 50m. If you count them you will notice there are 12 efforts there, hence the 12 days of Christmas link. Each time the piece got shorter, the pace also got faster by half a second per 50m. By the last 50m we were something close to flat out. As you can imagine it got pretty painful somewhere around the 350m mark. Still getting to the end felt great. It was also very nice to get that first post Ironman swim done and out of the way. The biggest downside to the session was that I got the song 'The 12 Days of Christmas' stuck in my head for the rest of the morning. Turns out that song gets pretty annoying after a while.

So part two of my day today is running. I will get to that this afternoon. It is a pretty easy run and so I am hoping it goes as well as my swim did this morning. Everything is feeling good physically and so I think I should be right to start running again. I guess I will find out this afternoon.

Running is the last piece. After this I will be close to training properly again. I am not sure why but I am feeling a bit pumped for the Albany Half Ironman. After Busselton I was ummming and ahhhing about Albany. This will be my third race in 2 months and I am conscious of not burning my self out motivationally. I was considering not doing Albany in order to give myself a mental break. However, rather than struggling to get myself out the door to train I am finding that I am keen to get back into it. I am not entirely sure why, all my expectations were that I would be feeling pretty flat, but that just isn't the case. Whatever the reason, I am not complaining.

Well not yet anyway.