I DID IT!!! Last night I swam the final mile meaning that I finished a full 6 weeks ahead of schedule. I also managed to raise £532/$864 for Aspire, far more than I thought I would. The last length was a bit of an anti-climax. I gave a little cheer and jumped for joy but there was no crowd of cheering fans and well wishers. However when I got home Mr B had stashed a bottle of French wine in the fridge and I he bought me croissants for breakfast today. Still on a high from my accomplishment, I walked round the house this morning talking to everyone in French which was possibly taking the French theme a little too far, especially as my French is rather limited.
Overall I am pretty pleased with myself, it hasn’t been easy trying to fit swimming 22 miles round a full-time job, a 10 month old and a husband who travels a lot. This was the list item that I was most worried about, I thought of all the things I said I wanted to do, this was the one I was most likely to throw in the towel on (tee hee).
I have a tendency to flirt wildly with exercise but give up before it becomes a long term relationship so I was more worried about the mental completion of this task than the physical one.
I’m glad that Mr B encouraged me to tackle it early on and a big thank you goes out to him for not complaining about me running off to the pool in the evenings.
Now I think I am going to take a little break from the pool to allow myself to recover from quite a severe case of “swimmer’s hair*”.
*For anybody unfamiliar with this condition, it occurs when over exposure to chlorine leaves your hair resembling that of a Lego person.
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