I arrived at sea swim early, took a ride from Jan this morning. The newbies had their orientation swim at 8am. So I headed off for a short 40min run from F2 towards NSRCC. It was slow going. I was overtaken by an auntie leisure runner, oops...
I rejoined the swim at 9am. There was a very large turnout today. We had many members of public and/or corporate teams who joined us. Many of them were using breast stroke.... and much as I tolerated, I just had to say - damn breast strokers! I was kicked several times by giant-sized swimmers slowing frogging their way and sighting the buoys. Or they would do 2 front crawl, 2 breast stroke, 2 front crawl.... Argh. One kick even landed on my goggles and I had to swim away from the rest, tread water and re-adjust them. Then another forcefully tried to cut my lane and go left as I was heading straight. We stared at each other because she kept hitting my legs, and then she just ploughed her way through. How rude! Reminder to self - no short distance races for me. Too many swimmers body slamming me.
We changed and went for a run. Melvin, Henry and I ran together for exactly 1:00h. It was such a hot day, I was burnt again...
I wonder if there was a term for a run-swim-run event. What sort of ".....thlon" would that be? Hmmm....
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