New to Tri: Gráinne – Week 5

I feel like this week hasn’t been the best. I made plans to cycle before hitting the road last weekend and to swim in Limerick on Sunday morning. The cycle ended up being cut short to 11km as the wind was wiping me out into the middle of the road. I wasn’t feeling very safe and it was really hard work, when you’ve to peddle downhill you know it’s windy.

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The swim Sunday morning was great, a lot of cobwebs from Munster’s win the evening before but they soon cleared away. UL, where I went to college, has a fantastic 50mx25m pool. There are plenty of public opening times and its 7-euro for a swim. On Sunday morning, there were two lanes open to the public while the rest of the pool was divided into a deep and sallow end for public use and four other lanes for club swimming.

There were several men of the elder age swimming away in my lane, these guys were the Sunday drivers of the swimming world, nice and easy no rush and kept going forever. Nice guys and full of the chat, but it was a little hard for me to keep to my plan of action with all the questions. At least the lanes are wide enough to overtake while someone is swimming towards you. If you’re in Limerick sometime, pop into UL and check out the pool. The rest of the arena is savage as well.

So after all my plans for fitting in sessions while away for the weekend, as soon as I was back in Dublin I did nothing. Yes nothing other than a tiny run. Granted the better half was in hospital, all fine just a minor op, so that possibly took my attention. In fairness, I owe a lot to this better half on mine, Conor. He is great at pushing me out to door for swimming on a Sunday night, might be due to the fact he can watch TV in peace!! He waits around for me to go for a cycle before heading to Limerick and even got up early last Sunday morning to come swimming with me. Next step folks is to get him to join the club 🙂

Plans for the next week are another tiny run on Saturday, depending on foot of course. Then cycle and swim on Sunday and hopefully my first spin class next Thursday. So looks like I can plan fine for weekends, but my midweek plans are falling apart.

Foot update, no pain during tiny run but hurts when I drive 🙁

Enjoy the sunshine.
Grá