Tuesday 31 August 2010

Four days to the Great North Swim!

Made the most of my last remaining day of Bannatynes Health Club membership (having switched to Total Fitness) to do 40 minutes weight training followed by a soak in the Hot Tub... The Hot Tub is definately better than swimming!

RNLI fund raising total today stands at £716 :-) Thanks everyone!

Monday 30 August 2010

A swim at Porth Cerriad

Had a bit of a swim at Porth Cerriad off Abersoch this afternoon which turned out to be a beautiful sunny Bank holiday... About 600 metres swim, just enough for a stretch :-)

Had a major boost to the fundraising this week too with the folk at Gimblet Rock holiday park in Pwllheli donating £76 by way of sponsorship for my RNLI Great North Swim! Many thanks not only to the many folk who have donated but also Lynsay, Zoe, Kevin and Carl for organising this additional fundraising! Total today stands at £611! :-)

Saturday 28 August 2010

Nice Hat!

Got up at 6.30am this morning for a swim in Salford Docks... I was questioning the wisdom of this myself I must admit but good experience for next weeks Great North Swim as the water here is deeper that at Boundary Water Park (around 7mtrs) and about the same temperature as Windermere. Have to admit to being quite aprehensive intitally with the depth but settled down for an OK swim. Swam 1 mile in 46minutes. Not the best of times but have never been good at exercise this early in the morning! The Folks from Uswim have been fabulous support in helping me get ready for my challenge next week so all thanks to them!
My RNLI fundraising total as of today stands at £535 :-) ~ http://www.justgiving.com/daves-rnli-swim

Thursday 26 August 2010

A mile at Boundary Water Park

Swam another open water mile this evening at the Uswim training session. Water was considerably colder than last time I swam here (18'c as opposed to 24'c) but also considerably clearer being able to see the reeds and the odd school of small fish!
All went well completing the mile in 43 minutes :-)

Wednesday 25 August 2010

Another Gym and swim session

Took my youngest daughter along to the Family zone at Total Fitness gym this evening and whilst she used treadmill, cross trainer, etc. I did 35 mins weight training. Both then had a swim... 500mtrs (20 x 25mtr)... Much more fun and felt a lot better than yesterday!

Tuesday 24 August 2010

Gym and swim

35 minutes weight training followed by an 800 metre sloppy swim this evening (40 x 20mtr lengths) at Bannatynes gym... Wasn't the best ever session!

Sunday 22 August 2010

Back from holiday!


Just back from a fortnight family holiday :-) Managed a couple of sessions in the gym, some swimming, snorkelling and diving and too much food!

Back to the training... Did a 4 mile run today with Karen which didn't feel too bad.

Kicked off the RNLI Great North Swim fundraising in earnest just before I left and the fundraising total as of today stands at £500 already! A massive thankyou to all those who have already donated!

The swim is in just under two weeks time and the donation page can be found here if you'd like to contribute ~ http://www.justgiving.com/daves-rnli-swim

Thursday 5 August 2010

Open water swim

Swam 1600 metres open water at Boundary water park this evning in 44 minutes... Loving it!

Followed it up with a 'wash' and play in the pool at the Sub-aqua club training session with my daughters afterwards (Eau de lake is never a good smell!)... Underwater frisbee football is also fantastic fun!

D :-)

Tuesday 3 August 2010

Out for a run

Managed to sneak a run in this evening, my first in almost a month! Down Middlewich rd to pick up the canal and then a loop around to Crewe rd Home again. Didn't have a puff on the inhaler and my hayfever related asthma played up a bit (excuses!)... 9km in 55mins.

Monday 2 August 2010

A family affair

Whilst Karen went out for a run this evening, I took our two daughters for a gym and swim! 30 minutes weight training for me whilst the girls did the rowing, running and cycling machines and then 500 metres swimming in the pool for us all :-)