Saturday morning and I've woken up with 'swimmers neck'. I've just made that name up but an hour of training in the pool last night has left my neck feeling like I've carried a ton weight round behind my head. Still it was worth it as I felt confident enough to go in the lane where the medium length swimmers go. There was no one else around so I got away with it.
I find the best way to cope is to daydream while I swim so last night I was competing in the Olympics - I won two gold medals and the commentators praised my style. In my head they were re-running the races in slow motion. In real life they wouldn't have to do that as I swim permanently in slow motion!
One of my wonderful RNLI colleagues (in fact our Celebrity Manager) has already sponsored me so with 22 days to go, I have now raised my first few pounds for the charity's South West Lifeguard Appeal. He's working with me on the sea swim because one of the more speedy swimmers taking part is Steve McFadden, Phil Mitchell in EastEnders. I think you'd class him as an elite swimmer - I'm an also ran.
I'm off to see if I can find someone daft enough to fall for my sore neck line and give me a massage!
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