Move Over Darling

Got down to 'our' jetty on Friday morning and to our surprise found a narrow boat parked up in our spot called 'Move Over Darling'. A few of the resident triathletes had got down there before us and we talking in extremely hushed tones so as not to wake the residents of said boat. Enter the channel boys and any talk of a lie in for the resident of the boat soon went out the window.

After a few minutes of commotion and talking suddenly there was movement from the boat. The hatch opened and a lady's head poked out to see what all the fuss was about. This was at precisely the point that Frosty was bending down and applying vaseline to his sides directly in front of the hatch/lady's head. What a way to wake up in the morning!!

After a few hellos and asking what on earth we were up to we stated that we'd be back in about an hour and put in a tea/coffee/bacon sarnie order. The hatch quickly closed and that was the end of the conversation.

Swim was good. Temperature at 17 degrees so still fairly cold.

Swam some similar stints to last time upstream towards the weir working 100 strokes hard and 50 steady. On the way back down I increased the 100 strokes by ten extra each set until I finished on around 200 on the final stretch. I'm finding this is a great way to break up the swim and is helping me swim a bit faster too.

Have entered another aquathlon over at liquid leisure on Sunday morning so that will be my next swim although I'll be wearing a wetsuit and it will be short at only 750m with 5k run after.