Chris Hobson
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My latest update on my 500 miles in 2022 swim challenge follows.
On the 1st of January 2022 I started my 500 miles swim challenge for the guide dogs charity.
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chris-hobson9
At the time of writing I have covered 389 miles so I'm within touching distance of my every fifty miles beer and curry night and well on the way to my 500 mile target.
I will be 64 years old in September so, when it comes to physical activities, you would have thought that the best that I could expect would be a kind of managed decline. After being diagnosed in 2013, I started distance running and, as I'd never really done it before, I kept scoring personal bests for various distances for quite a few years after I started. When it comes to swimming, I learned to swim as a teenager but never took it in any way seriously until taking up doing triathlons as part of my diet and exercise routine. This year of course I have done more swimming than I have ever done in my life before and have also been having improver lessons, so personal bests should surely be a possibility, yes? Sometimes I just swim steadily just to clock up the miles. Even just doing this my performance has improved such that my original 4 kilometres in two hours has become 5 kilometres in just over two hours. If I push myself I can get to 5 kilometers just inside two hours, a personal best when I first managed it of course. Today, having not pushed myself hard for quite a while, I decided to set myself a couple of targets to see if I could score some new personal bests. First, how fast could I now swim 5k? Second, if I do get inside two hours, what distance can I cover in two hours if I keep on swimming?
The results of this enterprise:
5 kilometers time:- 1:49:59 New PB.
Distance covered in 2hrs:- 5,450 metres
Not a PB as I've not measured this before.
My sports watch registered an additional new record 1,000 metres in 21:30.
So altogether I'm pretty happy with these results, the managed decline seems to be going pretty well. I can actually claim to be a pretty good swimmer. My shoulders and upper arms are pretty sore though.
On the 1st of January 2022 I started my 500 miles swim challenge for the guide dogs charity.
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chris-hobson9
At the time of writing I have covered 389 miles so I'm within touching distance of my every fifty miles beer and curry night and well on the way to my 500 mile target.
I will be 64 years old in September so, when it comes to physical activities, you would have thought that the best that I could expect would be a kind of managed decline. After being diagnosed in 2013, I started distance running and, as I'd never really done it before, I kept scoring personal bests for various distances for quite a few years after I started. When it comes to swimming, I learned to swim as a teenager but never took it in any way seriously until taking up doing triathlons as part of my diet and exercise routine. This year of course I have done more swimming than I have ever done in my life before and have also been having improver lessons, so personal bests should surely be a possibility, yes? Sometimes I just swim steadily just to clock up the miles. Even just doing this my performance has improved such that my original 4 kilometres in two hours has become 5 kilometres in just over two hours. If I push myself I can get to 5 kilometers just inside two hours, a personal best when I first managed it of course. Today, having not pushed myself hard for quite a while, I decided to set myself a couple of targets to see if I could score some new personal bests. First, how fast could I now swim 5k? Second, if I do get inside two hours, what distance can I cover in two hours if I keep on swimming?
The results of this enterprise:
5 kilometers time:- 1:49:59 New PB.
Distance covered in 2hrs:- 5,450 metres
Not a PB as I've not measured this before.
My sports watch registered an additional new record 1,000 metres in 21:30.
So altogether I'm pretty happy with these results, the managed decline seems to be going pretty well. I can actually claim to be a pretty good swimmer. My shoulders and upper arms are pretty sore though.
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