First off today's health report!
Today I went to the chemist for cream for sore and now painful cracked toe which is apparently athlete's foot. Who's foot it is I don't know, one thing I do know it's not St Paula's even though she is out of the games due to a foot injury!!
In addition I was after eye drops. Yesterday one eye was very blood shot and partially sealed in the morning. This morning both were and I looked like I had been on an all night bender! Very red eyes and massive pupils! They were sealed in the morning and sore :-( After several doses of Optrex for Infected Eyes I am pleased to report they look soooooo much better! Just hope the toe heals as quickly!
Right back to business! Athlete in training the title says so what has the Pixie been up to today.
The original plan was an hour of pool jogging, but the eyes made me think I should just swim normally with my goggles on (or googles if your name is Caff!! hehe sorry about that!). I guessed I would look even more of a twat jogging with goggles on than I do jogging as it is!!
Anyway get to the pool and Mrs Jobsworth wont accept my card until 6 as that's when the public swim starts! Which meant that I wasn't able to be at the pool side at 6 as planned, but I'm a quick changer so 4 mins past!
I took the jogger in with me just in case as I had looked at my eyes and they already looked better. So my plan changed to 40 lengths then we will see what happens.
For some reason half the county wanted to swim. It was so crowded so when you factored in the stupid women who chat away facing each other but 6ft apart and not looking where they are going, it was bad, very bad! I ended up being brave and going into the fast peeps section just for lengths. I wasn't alone in this thinking! I did my 40lengths in 34mins so a bit slow but I was tired and could feel the lack of energy (that will be because I didn't have my normal afternoon fed up snack attack!). I was forced to stop 3-4 times, swim between people almost every length and even over took people about 6 times including 3 times in the fast section!! So yes it was a swim. Yes it was 1km, but it wasn't a happy swim as such, it didn't have that satisfactory glow.
I did however do 15mins pool jogging on top of this. One thing I learnt is that once in the pool the belt can't be seen as 2 women stopped to ask what on earth I was doing! I said I was running and they were amazed I didn't just "drop straight down!" I did keep my goggles on for this as there was lots of splashing and I didn't want to get manky chlorine rich water in my eyes!!
Back home, with tea cooked and eaten and I am actually more weary from today's session than Sunday's long swim. It did, however, show that on the day of the swimathon I will need to eat in the afternoon and take a water bottle and a sports drink to keep me going otherwise I will be very tired and suffer!
Today I went to the chemist for cream for sore and now painful cracked toe which is apparently athlete's foot. Who's foot it is I don't know, one thing I do know it's not St Paula's even though she is out of the games due to a foot injury!!
In addition I was after eye drops. Yesterday one eye was very blood shot and partially sealed in the morning. This morning both were and I looked like I had been on an all night bender! Very red eyes and massive pupils! They were sealed in the morning and sore :-( After several doses of Optrex for Infected Eyes I am pleased to report they look soooooo much better! Just hope the toe heals as quickly!
Right back to business! Athlete in training the title says so what has the Pixie been up to today.
The original plan was an hour of pool jogging, but the eyes made me think I should just swim normally with my goggles on (or googles if your name is Caff!! hehe sorry about that!). I guessed I would look even more of a twat jogging with goggles on than I do jogging as it is!!
Anyway get to the pool and Mrs Jobsworth wont accept my card until 6 as that's when the public swim starts! Which meant that I wasn't able to be at the pool side at 6 as planned, but I'm a quick changer so 4 mins past!
I took the jogger in with me just in case as I had looked at my eyes and they already looked better. So my plan changed to 40 lengths then we will see what happens.
For some reason half the county wanted to swim. It was so crowded so when you factored in the stupid women who chat away facing each other but 6ft apart and not looking where they are going, it was bad, very bad! I ended up being brave and going into the fast peeps section just for lengths. I wasn't alone in this thinking! I did my 40lengths in 34mins so a bit slow but I was tired and could feel the lack of energy (that will be because I didn't have my normal afternoon fed up snack attack!). I was forced to stop 3-4 times, swim between people almost every length and even over took people about 6 times including 3 times in the fast section!! So yes it was a swim. Yes it was 1km, but it wasn't a happy swim as such, it didn't have that satisfactory glow.
I did however do 15mins pool jogging on top of this. One thing I learnt is that once in the pool the belt can't be seen as 2 women stopped to ask what on earth I was doing! I said I was running and they were amazed I didn't just "drop straight down!" I did keep my goggles on for this as there was lots of splashing and I didn't want to get manky chlorine rich water in my eyes!!
Back home, with tea cooked and eaten and I am actually more weary from today's session than Sunday's long swim. It did, however, show that on the day of the swimathon I will need to eat in the afternoon and take a water bottle and a sports drink to keep me going otherwise I will be very tired and suffer!
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TG I only over took peeps cos slow peeps were in the fast lane as the other area was too crowded!