Seamus tagged along, we used up one of my complimentary tickets.

1 x 4 lengths, gasping
floating
1 x 3 lengths, gasping.

10 minutes in the steam room, and 10 minutes in the jacuzzi. Really warm now

Visits to Gym – 8
Cost per Visit – €40

Planning on going again on Tuesday

Been too long since I was last at the gym, going to have to stop that

1 x 4 lengths, felt like I was dying.
rest
1 x 2 lengths, dead

At this point I started paying attention to the instructor who was teaching a lady in the next lane, and saying that she should slow down her stroke in order to breathe properly. I thought, hmm, maybe that would work for me.

1 x 4 lengths, not dead.

Jacuzzi 10 mins – that was really really nice.

It was actually the walk back to the flat from the gym that nearly did me in

Visits to Gym – 7
Cost per Visit – €45.714285714285714285714285714286 (Um, is that a little too precise?)

Another little trick that I am going to try is planning what my next visit to the gym is going to be. If I’m still a zombie on Monday, I’ll wait until Wednesday. If I’m only dead-ish, I’m going back on Monday.

1 x 10 lengths, pretty wrecked at end
jacuzzi 10 mins
1 x 14 lengths, pretty comfortable actually
sauna 2 x 10 mins with cold showers AAAAUUUUGGGHHH!

Visits to Gym – 6
Cost per Visit – €53.33

3 x 4 lengths much gaspings after each set
jacuzzi ten minutes, then sitting on a deck chair waiting for a lane to be free for a bit
1 x 12 lengths, gasping by the end of it.
jacuzzi 3 minutes
Tried another set
1 x 2 lengths, body says “no”
I leave

Visits to Gym – 5
Cost per Visit – €64

3 x 2 lengths, gaspings after each set of 2
Jacuzzi 12 mins, waiting for lane to be free
1 x 8 lengths, gasping
Going to slow down a little now, and build up slowly, should be able to do long distances again soon.

I am going to have to work on my stroke technique as well, it’s completely gone. The fact that I am gasping and unfit means that I can’t breathe properly yet, but we’ll get there.

Visits to Gym – 4
Cost per Visit – €80

1 x 6 lengths, major gaspings after each set of 2
Jacuzzi 10 mins
1 x 6 lengths, major gaspings after each set of 2

Current statistics

Weight – 26 stone or thereabouts
Visits to Gym – 3
Cost per Visit – €106.66

Also, on a public service note: in a swimming pool with 2 clearly marked and signed swimming lanes, it is NOT ok for you to sit in the middle of one of the aforementioned swimming lanes with your sprogs and play around – for 45 sodding minutes! There’s an entire half of the damn pool set aside for you!

Bloody hell, I don’t know. I maybe need to become a bit of a bastard and start saying something, but I just don’t want the aggro from these people.

Ah well.

Session Report

25 m pool
1 x 4 lengths – gasping after each set of 2.
Sauna 5 mins
1 x 2 lengths – another gasping session.
1 x 4 lengths – and that was enough. Again.

Current statistics

Weight – 26 stone or thereabouts
Visits to Gym – 2
Cost per Visit – €160

Next time I’ll swim more!

*sneeze*
*sneeze*

Think the chlorine is making me sneeze

Top McCain-Palin official Carly Fiorina is facing criticism from some within the campaign for a day of what they call “very Biden-like” comments, after the former Hewlett-Packard CEO told two separate interviewers that neither member of the Republican ticket would be capable of running a company.

Tee hee hee.

Asked by a St. Louis radio station whether she thought Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin could run a company like Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina responded: “No, I don’t.

*snort*! Stop it!

Asked about that remark on MSNBC, she made the same unprompted assessment of the GOP presidential nominee. “I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation.”

OMG! Stop! My sides are killing me!

This campaign source said Fiorina would be discouraged from additional media interviews.

HAR HAR HAR …. *thud*