The Blind man will see...

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Swimtrek Trip speed Groupings:

Speed Speed
Group min/km min/mile

1 18 29
2 19-25 30-40
3 >26 40


Last night, I timed my swim for the first time, because for the first time, I could see properly!!! I had contact lenses in, and Elton John style swimming goggles over my eyes. They're not pink, they're a sleek grey, but they make me look like Elton John. Nothing as cool as Jetbear's all black gear. Anyway, I swam a kilometre in 29 minutes. With a few brief "Stamina building" breaks, as Seb so creatively titled them, every so often. As you can see, from the above table, this puts me in group three, or, as they generously call it in the world of swimtrekking, the "Scenic group".

In the Swimtrek brochure, however, it lists the following four points as "Essential requirements in swimming distances of over 1km":

Ability to swim the distance
Ability to withstand the temperature
General conditions
Sustaining a consistent pace.

Using an indoor swimming pool for training, we can improve upon the first and last of these points. There isn't anything about speed here, though! As long as we can swim the distances involved at a constant pace, we will be both fine and dandy. Straight after last night's swim, I was exhausted!! My triceps, deltoids, biceps and pectorals (Oooh, who's been typing "Arm muscles" into google?) were all screaming at me "Why?! Aaaaaaggghhhh!!!!"

In other news, I stayed underwater for 49 seconds this week!

After the swim, Seb suggested that we maybe try some cardiovascular exercise using other sports as well, due to the fact that week upon week of blog entries about swimming up and down could become a tad tedious. It would be a BIG READ. Which, coincidentally, is the name of the only person we know for certain is following this blog (Hi Tom!!). We'll keep you posted about that. We will also eventually have blog entries devoted to finding a suitable charity or charites for which to raise money. Plus - we haven't even booked our swimtrek holiday!! All that and more to look forward to!!!!

In the meantime, I went home and ordered a kebab, in the whole Greek spirit of things. And drank some Californian Merlot. In the whole Greek spirit of things.