Swimming & Forever Blowing Bubbles.

Missed a fair bit of swimming lately and had the opportunity to get a midweek swim in so enlisted the help of Crossy Lad, Deano ‘Duathlon Champ’ Degan and a friend of mine Phoebe for a quick fire set

Series of 5 x 200 and 5 x 100s and after a good warm up Crossy the gentleman that he is made poor Phoebe lead out the lane for each rep – disgraceful behaviour.

I was getting dropped pretty early on each despite me coming in on 3.02 – 3.07s that I was more than happy with. The 100s I was much closer knocking each one under 1.30s. Crossy still with no shame made Old Deano even led some of the shorter reps.

Times for the 200s, 3.02, 3.03, 3.03, 3.07, 3.05

Sight of the Day, Watching Deano with ALL his toys, and I mean all, He even had the floating noodles cut up in lengths and stuck them behind his compression socks for more buoyancy – unbelievable.

Good warm up and cool down and jumped out with 1.9ks done for the day.

 Noticed old mate Slim Sammy Aggers was giving me a serve for not mentioning the latest footy results. Apologies indeed and yes his Tim Pot Palace did take 9 points of us throughout the season and congratulations to the Eagles on that, but boy they had more Jam than Hartley’s in doing so. Criminal how they got away with such daylight robbery. Anyway Aggers should be buying me my beer for the next 3 months as a thank you because without those points they’d be playing Championship footy come August with the Villa and Newcastle. In fact had it not been for a lucky FA Cup run then the classless manager Pardew would be picking up his P45 by now I’m tipping

With the season nearly over with only one match to play, there was a cracker last night with West Ham v Man Utd for the Happy Hammers last home game at the famous Upton Park. Alongside Anfied in full voice and The Brit (Stoke) there is no finer place to watch footy, especially for midweek matches.

A great club steeped in tradition and have always tried to play good football that I’ve always enjoyed watching ..... I’m sure Villa and Newcastle could certainly learn a thing or two from the ‘Scrap Dealers’

 

Will be back out tomorrow for a trot although will be going easier with Sundays SMH Half coming up.

 A few pics from swimming today and from Saturday’s State 10k run

 

Crossy handing Deano the 'Bling' from the Duathlon last year.

 

When he wasn't ordering people to lead the lane out, Crossy spent more time taking photos.

Jeet thought he had 'Run of the Day' in the bag after his impressive 34.42 and demanded I took a photo of his good side.

Quality runs from the Jordan's - Erika & Darren, although the former did steal my pacer in Prince Ho.

Nice runs from Angus, Corky O'Connor, Ruth and The Jock Boy - Craig.

Although Pete Walker was ruled out with illness, Taffy broke 40 mins (and took out the Clydesdale division) and Steve Perry broke 35 minutes - happy days.

Sammy T and Sammy the Salmon , pleased with there runs.

Cheers