So cold!

Went out for a run this evening in a light snow flurry and 1.5'c temperatures. 3 miles (twice around the block) in 26 minutes

Gym

Did 40 mins weight training at the gym this morning

Swam a mile!

Swam my first mile in a good few years this afternoon! 80 x 20metre lengths (1,600 metres) at Bannatynes Gym in 48 minutes which bodes well for being able to finish the Great North Swim in September before nightfall ;-). About a third of it was front crawl... Need to try and increase that.

Bit of a swim...

Took my youngest daughter down to sub-aqua club this evening during the half term holidays and in amongst the playing we swam 22 x 25 metre lengths (550 metres) followed up by a Jacuzzi :-) Happy days!

Gym

45 minutes weight training in the gym this evening

Weight Training

50 mins weight training this evening at Bannatynes gym... I love lifting heavy things :-)

Chilly!

Went out for a run late this afternoon. Around the wheelock rail trail, 2.5 miles in 17 minutes. Felt great!... time seems awfully quick?... not sure now whether I misread it!?!

Out for a stretch

Braved the 2.5'c this evening to get out for a quick stretch. Ran 1.5miles 'around the block' in 13 minutes.

Back from a cold

Had a bad cold last week so no trainng since then... Eased back in to it with 45mins weight training this evening.

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

D :-)

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.

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! :-)

Swimming & Gym

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

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).

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).

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.

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 :-)

D.