No rubber ring required!

As we draw closer (32 days) to Copenhagen Ironman my coach Steve focus's alters my training regime to reduce the endurance element as the hard work is "almost over" and increase the intensity of the sessions i.e. get the pain over quicker.  Todays swim involved 5 x 100m warm up, a 35 min continual swim (about 1,500m  if I counted right but can't be sure) and 8 x 50m warm down.  I was asked to leave out the pull buoy which keeps my bum higher in the water like a wetsuit would, and obviously this makes the swim harder.  So I did and yes it was harder but I tried to maintain my stroke throughout - apologies to the Athelite Triathlon Club swimmers who had to keep overtaking me!   The rest of the week will involve two bike rides, one run and an open water swim before my training camp in the heat the following week.