The lovely people at DJM had sent me my spring 09 training and racing kit - oh my god the excitement could not be contained. Even before I could get my helmet and sweaty bike kit off I had the box open and was tearing open the plastic bags to inspect my new kit!!
Like a child in a sweetshop (unless it's the sweet shop on Rye high street, which has sweets in jars floor to ceiling - I'm in heaven) I couldn't wait to try it all on.
Can't wait for the weather to get warm so it can be worn in all its glory, rather than hidden under winter layers.
Sported my new Zoot swim costume at training this am - In 90 minutes it and I got treated to 1,100m warm up, 2,400m paddle, pull and band set, 250m kick than to finish 20 x 25m fly off 40 seconds. Having never done a full length fly! let alone 20, I started doing 1/2 length one arm, 1/2 length butterfly. But I like a challenge so after the 3rd 25m, I decided to see if i could do a full length. It wasn't very pretty, or very fast, but got to the other side and had about 10 seconds rest. So my first length butterfly, turned into 17 lengths :-)
