Thursday, 17 March 2011

Often on a Thursday morning, which is my morning off, I share my latest domestic arts project. But the enormous cross stitch hasn't made much progress, and although I've made a veggie spag bol for dinner, it isn't terribly attractive, and I guess you aren't terribly interested in pictures of my hoovering.

I have however swum 5km this morning (200 lengths of a 25 m pool); some of you know that I have somewhat recklessly decided, amid wedding planning, to do a marathon swim (10km in a lake...)(28th May...) to raise some more money for charity - more on this in due course. Today, as part of my training I had to swim 5km which was further than I've ever swum. It wasn't too bad and even the boredom was tolerable - it took me 95 minutes.

When I got home, I saw that Bernard the bear was obviously a little disappointed that he hadn't been quick enough off the mark to join me...

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7 comments:

  1. Cristina (Rochester Reader)17 March 2011 at 11:47

    Well done Verity! That is impressive! I love swimming but I'm not much of a swimmer yet and I wish I could do it weekly rather than a few times a year.
    Bernard looks adorable :-)

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  2. Yvann17 March 2011 at 12:12

    That is a huge amount of swimming - congratulations on achieving your training goal and good luck for the rest of it!

    Don't underrate hoovering and spag bol. Two things I would LOVE to be doing right now :)

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  3. Darlene17 March 2011 at 12:21

    Hahaha! I'd say that Bernard got off lucky...phew, Verity, that is quite the feat!

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  4. Sophie17 March 2011 at 14:33

    Aww, Bernard looks so cute! Congrats on your swim -- good luck with the rest of your training.

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  5. Rose17 March 2011 at 19:21

    I'm no swimmer at all - but what a great bear (and good alliterative name too), and so lovely to dress him up.

    What do you think about while you swim? I can only bear to exercise with an audio book as distraction.

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  6. Geraldine17 March 2011 at 22:43

    Hope that Bernard the bear is a better swimmer than I am. I never did get the hang of swimming without the aid of water wings. He looks really cute in his goggles etc.

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  7. Anonymous20 March 2011 at 11:15

    That is such a long swim! And Bernard looks super cute with that outfit :)

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