Fame! and post Flu Floundering

The organisers of Celtman have decided to do a daily post of 'Athlete of the day' on their facebook page and as I was due to be one of the said 'Athletes' I decided that as well as providing a photo I would also contribute the following 'Bio'....

Mick Wyldbore-Wood, Chesterfield, England. Team: BCTTT

Age on race Day: 38

Achievements to date: School Conkers Champion 1985-87
Best Dancer, Butlins Prestatyn 1988
25m swim badge 2012 (awaiting sewing onto trunks by Mum)
Most lovable rogue, Liverpool probation service 1995

Reason for entering: After becoming a member of the eccentric online triathlon club (BCTTT.com) I found myself signing up for and completing my first ever 70.3 at Antwerp in 2011 all in the name of charity. I decided to up the challenge, continue the stupidity, and sign up for Celtman! Partly because, having been an Outdoor Instructor for years and leading expeditions around the world, I have a love of the mountains and partly because of an inherently damaged self preservation gene.
Either way I'm now signed up to raise as much money as possible for little Beatrice (for more info please visit http://www.getbeatricemobile.org/) or just head straight to www.justgiving.com/Celtman and donate!
I'm going to try and log my journey to the start line with my blog http://theceltman.blogspot.com/. I can only apologise in advance to all you nutritionally balanced, training program following, hardcore type athletes....there's a cuckoo in the nest. He's at the back looking fat and flustered.

You may hear him muttering various unrepeatable phrases all centered around the question of why. Please ignore him, carry on with your business....he may be some time - just ensure he gets a pint when he finishes.

I thought it was apt ;o)

I also thought that I should get my ass training and, maybe prematurely as the Man flu is still lingering, I went along to MAD swimming session. It's only 45 mins on a Tues so I thought that would be a bit gentler. Well that was a load of tosh! 'Warm up' was 2 lots of 400m front call with 15 sec rest between sets....FFS!

I needn't have worried though because after this 'warm up' we just did 3 lots of 100m Breast stroke legs with floats followed by 4 lots of 25m max effort sprints. Funny thing is though, my technique feels MUCH better during the 25m max efforts than it does during the much slower 400m sets? Possibly just down to a lack of fitness but I suspect it's got much more to do with my breathing, think I get hypoxic on longer sets?