The past couple of weeks have been ticking over nicely. The first week we took a week off work spent it relaxing. We had a lovely day at Woolaton Hall on the Monday and Linda had an ice-cream while I had mineral water! We also received some exciting news about swimming pools starting to reopen on the 27ThJuly. This is big news that I had been waiting for.
However, it wasn’t so straightforward finding an open pool – and one that would take on swimming lessons for new people. I am not sure if I have blogged this, but I cannot swim very well at all. At best, I can do a laboured breaststroke. I had booked lessons with my friend in the weeks before Covid-19. However her pool would not be able to open just yet. I spent the Saturday and Sunday calling around all of the gyms trying to find who had an open swimming pool. This left me with 2 options 1) go to Matlock and have lessons with the Tri-Club or 2) Sell a kidney and join David Lloyd.
I called David Lloyd’s and they were very open about me joining to use the pool and they said I could start lessons this week! However it was quite expensive. I figured it wasn’t every day you train for an Ironman so signed up with them. The swim teacher is a guy called Chris, who Zoe knows – and Chris has agreed to help teach me to swim, with first lesson this Saturday,
Also had a meeting with Zoe to discuss plans and goals. As a result I have entered the Etwall Sprint Triathlon on the 13th September which consists of an 400m Swim, 18KM bike and 5km run. I’m hoping this event goes ahead. I also am starting to increase my long run sessions by 5% each week until 18th Octoberwhere I will hopefully run my Half Marathon. Here me and Zoe’s son smashing the Strength and Conditioning
Bipolar Ironman 