Recovery/Survival Swim

Procrastinated for hours this morning before i was brave enough to venture down to the pool for the recovery swim. Bloody freezing getting changed and was dreading even the thought of it - that was until i jumped in and it was a lovely 26 degrees.
Bit of a warm up and then decided on doing 2 x 700m efforts, I say efforts, it was anything but as i laboured big time from the off today so ended up just trying to get through them. Times were shocking, and i won't even bother to post - Lets just say i wont be troubling any Olympic team in this lifetime. Don't know about the recovery swim it really was a case of Survival this morning. Happy to get it done though and felt good once i was all showered and into the morning coffee.

Olympic Watch. Well congrats to the Aussie 4 x 100m team last night, After talking the talk for the past few months you delivered us nothing. Very disappointing in there 4th spot after being favorites to take the Gold. Although after witnessing it and the short interval after, James Magnussen now comes into my Top 10 'Poor Sportsman / Most Disliked Aussie Athlete. I know he was disappointed, but the way he reacted was poor form in my eyes
Got me thinking about my Top 10 (again not in any specific order, and not even Olympians ) but here goes

1. Anthony Mundine, boxing
2. Jana Pitman - Hurdles
3. John Steffersen - 400m runner
4. Bernard Tomic - Tennis
5. Tamsin Lewis - 800m runner
6. Lleyton Hewitt - Tennis
7. Ricky Stuart  - Rugby League
8. Craig Foster - Football
9. James Magnussen - Swimming
10. .......There's still another 14 days left of the Games, sure to be a few to be added. :)

All of the above should take a look at swimmer Libby Trickett and see what at true sports she is.

On a lighter note, Poor Enda phoned me last night, and he is normally very much 'Anti Queen' and is always slagging her of, so it was a nice surprise when he spoke very highly after the Opening of the Games about Our Lizzy. " Yes, Timmy, fair play to her, i normally think of her as an old miserable bugger, but the way she jumped out of that helicopter with James Bond on Friday night was very impressive"
..... Bless Him :)


Cheers