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Lessons Learned

21/8/2013

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Last night I swam for two and a half hours around the Hampstead pond.  I arrived slightly later than I intended, and had not realised that the pond is now beginning to close earlier and earlier.  I'd planed for a three hour swim, but there simply wasn't time.

That said, I learned a few lessons.

1. Plan my training schedule better.  On Sunday, I did 901 press-ups in an hour.  On Monday I decided to do chest press at the gym, and on Tuesday I swam for two and a half hours.  By Wednesday morning I felt like my shoulders had been battered with a length of oak.  It wasn't the best training regime I've done.

2. There is a long way to go.  A two and a half hour swim is good, but I rapidly need to build up to four.  And with the nights drawing in, I need to look at how I'm going to achieve that.

3. I need to do something about the chaffing.  A friend told me of a product called Body Glide.  I applied loads of it last night (and I've already had to shave), but I still chaffed.  It's a niggling pain, that plays on the mind as you swim.

4. I should be proud of what I can already achieve.  To be allowed to do a solo swim, I need to complete a ratified six hour open water swim.  For a relay team event, each person has to complete a two hour swim.  I can already comfortably complete the latter, so I need to look at this as a positive (whilst also figuring out how to get more time in the water).
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    Alan Gale

    One time soldier, part-time author, full-time training manager, husband and father.

    Swam 21.8 miles of the English Channel in August 2014 for Acorns Children's Hospice, in memory of our son, Harry Gale, raising over £13,000

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