Whats the worse that can happen

I have finally bitten the bullet and entered my 1st triathlon and t is taking place in tomorrow!!  I have been meaning to post something about this ages ago but never got around to it!! (to busy training)

Here at the details it is the sprint distance, which means 400m pool swim, 22.3km bike ride and finally a 5k run.  I have been saying for years that I would like to do one, but the swim has always put me off, but during a chance conversation with a fellow runner  I found out that it is was only 16 lengths of a 25m pool and that got me thinking perhaps I could do that after all.  Sean has always said he wanted to do one so there was nothing stopping us.

FIRE UP google and set the search for pool sprint triathlon, following a number of false starts as dates clashed with all my other running commitments we settled on Oxford Triathlon August bank holiday this also meant

we could finally take my parents campervan out for a spin :)  set the search to campsites in Oxford and we were all set.

The only thing I needed to do now was get in the pool and get swimming, now I can swim but I have cheated in nearly every badge I have ever taken….even my red……you know the one swim a length of the baby pool! My holiday swimming consists of getting into the pool and waddling over to the pool bar and then back to my sun lounger so again not really what you could call swimming!

So I got myself a swimming costume, a pair of goggle and I was all set to hit the pool! My first couple of attempts were quite dis-hearting: head out of the water, stopping every time I got splashed or overwhelmed! Now I am not frightened by water, I can wash my hair just fine, I have even been on a test scuba dive…. My problem is that I get all the breathing wrong; either holding my breath or breathing in nether of which advisable.  But I kept going and slowly I managed to put my face in the water for breaststroke and

rhythmically breathing out as my face went under the water. Next step front crawl; again this started out with face out of the water and the odd mile panic when I got splashed but again swim by swim I was getting more and more confident with my face in the water and side breathing….SUCCESS

So tomorrow will the test, I am confident about the bike and the run, let hope I don’t forget everything I have learned in the last few weeks…. Check back later in the week to see if I sink or swim…literally