Had a good swim today. Managed to swim 2km in exactly 40:00, even though I did kicking and took decent breaks. Cruised the first 250m in 8 minutes (okay, historically that's slow; I've done that over a minute faster, at least, but for a hippo it's cruising), and the next one ten seconds faster, without trying to go faster.
The pool was great. There was only one guy in my lane and he knew what he was doing. He swam a few lengths just off my feet and seemed to be able to stay with me.
He could even stay ahead of me doing one length of breaststroke while I was swimming freestyle. He is probably the fastest guy I have seen at the pool.
Earlier this year I did a swimming race in a 50 meter pool, 3.9km, and came 2nd out of, I don't know, I guess a hundred of us, with about 10 people crammed into each lane. I had a good result, timewise, I think, for only training once a week for 6 weeks. I did that swim in 1 hour and 2 minutes.
Anyway, I was impressed with the guy in my lane today. I felt a bit like a hippo, even though I was cruising. Caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror on my way down to the pool. Frankly, it looked like my head had shrunk! And when I weighed myself after the swim I was 79.75kg.
The good news is I had a light lunch before the swim. The bad news is last night I had two packets of crisps. Got to go to work now.
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