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7 days to go…
A week today and game on (weather permitting of course). If all goes well my final blog will be in 8
days times and I will be looking back over the last couple of years with some
wonder; everything that can be crossed is being crossed by me at the moment.
Back to reality …..
Last night was “once again” busy at home with Jesse for some reason
joining Mia in our room – just as we thought he had nailed it!! By around 1am ish I was receiving physio
treatment in my back and neck by Mia; thump thump, dig dig, thump, dig, push,
pull; the full works. She may only be 4
years old but boy can she kick and pull; a true physiotherapist in the making.
I was at the seafront by 6.45am and walking with Flick and
Bog Bob to the arch. It was busy there
for a change; David, LB, BB, Me, Flick, Damien, James, Mark, Martina, Charlotte,
Naomi and about another 4 or 5 I can’t remember. It was nice to get some life back in the old
place again after so many quiet months.
As for the swim today; Bob wasn’t feeling totally great and as such not
wanting to push it too much, which suited me as I am in my last week of
training and wanting to tail it down a bit.
So we headed out to the first buoy, rest, then the second buoy, rest,
then the third buoy by the pier, rest and then diagonal back to the first buoy
and rest! At the last buoy I raised my
goggles to my head and let the sea slowly bring me to shore. I’ve never done that before and let just the
sea take me in without any swimming at all; it was strange to do that as instinctively
you want to kick, but it was nice all the same and very calm. The thing about the sea in Brighton
is that when we say that the tide is coming in or going out what we mean is
East to West or West to East (left to right or right to left). Many places the sea genuinely pulls you in
and out, but in Brighton you will go left or right (or right to left) rather
than out to sea. The natural pull is to
bring you in. The lesson is that if you are ever in the sea in Brighton and are too tired to swim in, don’t panic, just
relax and let the sea do it’s thing.
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