This week while I was doing my lengths (42 number watchers ;)) I noticed a sign up for the Swimathon. I enjoy my weekly swim, in as much as I know it’s good for me, it beats sitting in the rather nasty, run down, too hot environment of the spectators area listening to the other swimming mums boring conversations and I get to try and beat myself each time.
Last year I set myself the target of 50 lengths and did it fairly easily, I’ve lost a bit of ‘condition’ due to not being as regular an attendee this term but I liked the idea of a challenge so I wombled over to the website to see what it was all about.
There are various challenges including ‘just swimming’ (not enough for me, I need a goal to aim for and some pressure to make me perform), 1.5km (I can do that fairly easily so again not too big a challenge), 5km (would probably kill me and never in the 3 hours would I manage that) or the ‘happy’ medium of 2.5km (75 lengths, enough to stretch me past my usual comfort zone, enough to celebrate if I achieve it and a decent enough level of exersion for me to feel happy asking people to donate to charity in honour of it).
So I’ve signed up, uploaded a picture of me in the pool, set a nice target worthy of 2.5km (£250) and will now have a firm goal to think about on my weekly swims for the next few weeks.
If you could sponsor me I’d be ever so grateful 🙂 Link to my page is here. .
And in addition, if anyone would be up for coming along to the pool to offer some support it’d be great to make something a weekend of it. The swimming takes place between 630-930pm on Saturday 17th April so overnight space here can be found for anyone wishing to stay – I can’t promise I’ll be up for dancing afterwards but I imagine I’ll be happy to celebrate with the odd glass of wine or two. 🙂