A little after 9pm this evening, I completed my challenge of 1500 metres (or 60 lengths) for this years Swimathon in aid of NCH, the children’s charity.
After a more than flaky first 12 lengths where in I consumed a good amount of chlorinated water, choked, floundered and got a stitch, I got myself back into my stride (or is it stroke for swimming?) by the end of the second 12 – although thoughts of me being the last one to finish when the pool closed at 10pm did enter my mind…
In the end, the last 36 (or three lots of 12) were remarkably proficient. And more importantly for only the second time ever in my life I have swum 60 lengths, in a not too disgraceful time (my result is not yet posted on the Swimathon website but a quick search by event, gender, and age, shows that a time of just minutes under an hour to get you to Ranking 5 and 6!). Go me!! 🙂
As a reward for my endeavours, I decided to treat myself in the following ways…
Hey, good one!
I guess this means I owe you some money, huh? Send me the bill 🙂
I’m still a bit tired to be honest!
Don’t worry, I’ll be sorting out an ‘invoice’ for all relevant people… *grins* Thank you!
You are amazing. I am so impressed. Money goes to where?
You want me to send you an email?
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHoohoohoooo!!!!!!!
You are AWESOME!
I think the same good be said for you! 🙂
Isn’t there a small matter of a book that you’ve finished?! *grins*
Well done! You thoroughly deserved your treats 😀
I certainly thought so! Thanks v. much for your sponsorship! 🙂
Have I paid you, BTW? I can’t remember!
Yes. You paid me via a PayPal link I set up – which I subsequently used to buy a dvd off ebay with, but I paid up your pledge on the Swimathon site when they launched the online payments…
Sorry to come to this so inexcusably late Shepline – just wanted to say a big well done to you!
There’s something in the way that you address me so formally as ‘shepline’ rather than ‘Thomas’ that reminds me of the way Lois Lane addresses Clark Kent as ‘Smallville’… *grins*