Not ever, but the longest swim I’ve done in the past five months.
I’m slowly, tentatively returning to the water after a back injury. It’s great to be back in the water again, but I’m trying not to push too hard – just hard enough. There are two main reasons for this: 1) I’m still not certain what caused the injury, or whether the recovery will hold, so I don’t want to damage it again; 2) I’m really unfit and knackered!
However this morning I got chance to swim in the pool at Imperial College London (right by the Royal Albert Hall – a lovely location). The pool was great, it was full of fit students (and lecturers I presume) and I felt pretty good. So I pushed myself a bit further.
Today, dear reader, I swam a whole mile and even managed 3 x 500m in one go! Both recent records.
Not only did I really enjoy it, it’s also got me thinking about signing up for 2Swim4Life again!
PS – today’s swim was another as part of the Aspire Channel Challenge, please sponsor me.
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