Rained Out

This is my excuse for not being able to complete my 5-training-session-week. Not the usual shower or drizzle but the type of tropical downpour that creates flash floods! :(

A quick run-down of the week then (more details in side bar):

• Mon - Ran 5km in the office gym during lunch
• Tues - Swam 1.4km before leg cramps made me stop
• Wed - Ran 10.3km in light rain out at the park
• Sat - Swam 1.5km in record time (wanted to do kick drills, but forgot to bring my kickboard)

Wait a minute, did I say "record time"? :) Yup, I sure did. For some weird reason, I was 4-5mins faster over 1.5km when I used the 50m pool at my friend's club. Can't think why - I have been focusing less on SPEED and more on ENJOYING the swim lately (finally figured life on earth is too short to waste on doing stuff I don't enjoy), but surely that can't make a 10% difference in speed? Only plausible explaination I can think of is that the pool where I live is a bit longer than the 25m that I had assumed - would probably explain why I was actually faster swimming in open water than in the pool. Will have to try another 50m pool somewhere else before I can be sure, but this is one mistake that I am very excited about. ;) Now if only I had the same mistake with my run and bike distances... :P

Those of you who read my last posts would remember that I intended to get R2 a proper bike so he doesn't have to be a passenger on my bike in our weekly races. Well, R1 got tired on Sat on the ride home, so I put R1 on my bike and let R2 try his brother's bike. He went fantastically (see picture on right)... Then we came to a slight slope with a sharp curve and poor R2 fell face first into a (very) shallow ditch! The poor boy came up with a mouthful of dirt, scratches on his face, and a cut upper lip (both inside and out). Boy, he was not amused that his Dad forgot that 3 year olds can't really pull back hard enough on the brake levers - that's why they make kid's bikes with castor brakes! I was tempted to show you a pic of the damage, but that would be too cruel, so take my word that he is not a happy camper.

Next week I head to India (again), so I plan to cramp in as many training sessions as I can this week before India. Until next time, train safe and God Speed!