Today was supposed to be a rest day, but I snuck an extra swim in. Scott and I did the City Beach groins (x4) which is about 4k. It was my first wettie & ocean swim since the HIM in May. The water was pretty good. Not cold at all and pretty flat. There was a decent little offshore wind blowing and visibility was OK, but not great. We met just before 7am. It might seem like I always record great rides/runs and PB's in this blog/diary. Not today!
I was looking forward to it, as I would rather swim in nice ocean conditions than a pool any day. We took off together, but soon Scott eased away from me. I never felt good from the first 50m to the last. My arms felt tired and I had no power in my stroke. My forearms especially just felt plain tired. It took me nearly 1km to get into the groove somewhat, but I just couldn't get a consistent rhythm going. Scotty and I popped up near each other a few times at either end of the course, but we basically swam on our own. Then after half way, I swam into some stingers - about 6 times in 1km. Face, neck, arms and underarm all got mild stings. I was not happy. As if I wasn't swimming bad enough, to get dropped by Scott (he is probably faster than me normally) and then stung made me feel like throwing in the towel for the day! It was my 4th swim in less than 7 days and I had a hard swim on Friday night. So I think it had kind of caught up to me. No excuses though, I was just crap! Anyway, I couldn't quite bring myself to quit, especially since Scott was there. So I banged away for another 16-17 min and finished the set. It was about 4k, probably a tad less, more like 3.9k for me though. Ended up doing 1:07 which isn't exactly slow, but it certainly ain't fast.
Anyway, thats week 18/20 completed and now for the full taper to begin! My week ended up being 14:00hrs - made up of 12.7/237/39. Probably one of the biggest swim weeks I have ever had. Next week drops back to 9-10hrs. Focus for this week is recovery & sleep! Time to get my bike serviced and buy all my supplies ready for race week...
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