Next weekend I will be starting my 'quarter-decker'.  A 14-day training period comprising of exactly one-forth of the Deca race.  Day 1 will be a 6 mile pool swim (I am breaking it down into 12 x half-mile reps), so today I progressed from 6 half-mile reps that I completed last week (with wetsuit which has now been binned forever!) to 9 half mile reps.  After each rep I am stopping for a drink / feed and I was surprised to notice that I drank just as much compared to when I wore a wetsuit.

I have now made a switch over to an electrolyte based carb drink to take care of mineral loss etc.  I still received a few strange looks from the other pool users but this time it must have been the fact that I had 4 drinks bottles at the end of my lane.


Earlier this morning I met Jo Kilkenny and Tom Beaver lakeside at Swan Pool for some cold water coaching.  Both Tom and Jo are attempting the Enduroman Arc to Arc (Tom - Sept 08 / Jo - July 09). 



The water temperature was only 46 degrees and officials at the lake said it is about 4 weeks behind in temperature compared to last year.  Both athletes pictured above swam well and I will be meeting them both soon again as they need to achieve a 2-hour cold water swim before we will allow them to use the boat in Weymouth for their channel training.