All is lost

Well perhaps not all is lost, but definitely my goggles. Last night I was getting my stuff together for swimming this morning and I just couldn't find them anywhere. Not where I usually put them to dry, not rattling around the bottom of my swim bag, not in the back of the car. Mystery.

I have a spare, so isn't a huge deal, but I really like those goggles, so it is a little bit annoying. I haven't completely given up hope. Things, particuarly small things like goggles, have a habit of disappearing and then turning up again months later around our house. Probably something to do with the rather open minded approach we take to cleaning up. Whatever the reason, you never know, I might be seeing them again sometime.

Speaking of goggles and other swimming related things, I had swimming this morning. I guess you could say that this morning was my first 'proper' Wednesday back since having a couple of weeks off. Last Wednesday I was there, but I had a pretty cruisy session. Today I was back swimming with the speedy folk. Well probably more accurate to say that I was back swimming in the general vicinity of the speedy folk, since I certianly wasn't able to stay with them. But it was good to step it back up a little bit more. One more step on the way back to race fitness.

Tough session. For our lane it looked like this:

400m easy
6 x 50 not so easy
600m hard
400m easy
6 x 50 not so easy
800m harder
400m easy
6 x 50m not so easy
1000m hardest

There were some actualy times in involved in that, but you get the idea. I held together okay up until the 1000m. The 1000m was still hard and hurty, but just not so speedy. Instead of speedy it seems that I was working on that specialised type of hard, hurty, slow swimming that you tend to get when fatigued.

Still it is the sort of session that triathletes tend to think of when they look smug and knowlingly say, 'put that one in the bank'. Which generally just means the session may not have been a special one, but was a necessary one.

This afternoon is bike time, which I am looking forward to. I am hoping it isn't also rain time. For the last couple of days in Perth the sky has been all kinds of grey and threatening, although from what I have seen there hasn't really been much rain. I am hoping that trend continues today. The forecast is for it to clear a bit, so hopefully that is correct. The forecast is also for the winds to become lighter, so I am really hoping that bit comes true as well.

Annoyingly, but also understandably, the main route south from the city (along the freeway) is currently closed and will remain that way until June. I do understand that it is necessary, that section really needed some work and closing it is the only way to do that, but at the same time it is a real pain since it means a bit of an annoying detour. I would usually head that way on a Wednesday afternoon ride, but at the moment I am considering my options for alternatives. To be honest though I think I will just suck it up and do the detour.

What doesn't kill you and all that.