Thursday 28 January 2010

RNLI's SOS Fundrasing day



Friday 29th Jan is the RNLI's biggest fundraising day of the year... SOS day! Read more about it here... http://www.rnli.org.uk/sosday/home

To mark the event, I'm launching my RNLI funraising for this year "Starting Off Swimming"... I decided that I could put this swimming training in lieu of running to good use and so have now got my confirmed entry for this years Great North Swim. It's a mile in Lake Windemere at 2.30pm on Saturday 4th September!

Catch more about the event here ~ http://www.greatswim.org/Events/British-Gas-Great-North-Swim/

You can support me here if you want ~ http://www.justgiving.com/Daves-RNLI-Swim

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Swimming and Weights

Did 45 minutes weight training before work this morning and 750 metres swimming this evening at dive club (30x25 mtrs)... Need to start timing my swims and working on my front crawl.

Sunday 24 January 2010

First run of 2010!


Decided to brave the drizzle and 4'c temperatures to get out for a first run of 2010. Ran the wheelock rail trail loop of 2.5 miles in 22 minutes. Felt great! :-)

Saturday 23 January 2010

Swimming & Gym

40 minutes weight training followed by 1,000 mtrs swimming (50x20mtr lengths). Can't swim front crawl after the gym! :-)

Thursday 14 January 2010

More swimming in lieu of running

35 minutes weight training last night and another 1,000m swimming this evening at Sub-Aqua club (40x25m lengths).

Tuesday 12 January 2010

Still icy

With much snow and ice still around I'm concentrating on fitness training this week rather than running. 1,200m swimming at Banatynes (60 x 20m lengths).

Sunday 10 January 2010

Treadmill

Still lots of snow and ice about so decided to do some running on the treadmill at Bannatyne's gym (which I've always found much harder than road running). Did 5km in 33 mins 58 seconds and followed up with 30 mins weight training and 600 metres swimming.

Thursday 7 January 2010

Welcome to the 2010 Blog!

With thick snow, ice and temperatures of -14.5'c this week running outside has been out of the question... Instead I've been swimming twice this week covering 1,550metres over the two sessions :-)

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