Another beautiful day (and I am not sick of writing
that). Temperature at 6.30am around 18
degrees and set to hit over 25 degrees by the end of the day. The sea was once again flat, although quite a
strong tide pull to the east made it sluggish to swim in. Big Bob and Sean wanted to head to the West
Pier, but I didn’t want to today (just because!) so I bade them farewell in
favour of twice around the pier (beach2beach2beach). Thinking better of swimming without me they
changed their minds and with Shoichi leading the way we headed of around the
pier. Sean was wearing his flippers
today and that put him in second position to Shoichi, with bob and I a couple
of metres behind. My challenging mind
kept saying “well he is wearing flippers” whilst my more practical mind replied
“yes but he is almost 70”. My challenging mind then was saying “well he has
been swimming all his life and I’ve only been swimming 2½ years ” whilst my
more practical mind replied “yes but he is almost 70”. Swimming is an amazing sport; not only is it
a full body none impact sport (as long as you stay out of a rough sea of
course), but also it can make time/age almost irrelevant in terms of speed/agility. The fact that Sean is some 15 years older
than Bob and some 27 years older than me makes no great difference. Sure in truth his flippers were a big help to
him as usually he is behind us (but he is 70 my mind screams as I write
this!) however to be doing an almost 2
mile swim at 7am is pretty impressive no matter your age, let alone someone in
his later years.
As for me (the
youngster), I am also at the gym today at midday with Ross working on Abs, back
and chest – no doubt no food will be taken before or after (so far nothing
except a strong coffee consumed!) and then whilst the rest of Brighton suns
itself on the beach I will be stuck at my desk trying to make headway into my
Everest of outstanding paperwork – living the dream baby, living the dream
Nearly 70 years of developing muscles, in 25 years time you could be doing the same!
ReplyDeletein 25 years I'll be fast asleep!
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