Sun 25th Jan 2015 at 10:00am by bigfatjoe

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Time
58:50
Miles
1.75
per 100m
2:05
Cals
1437
Asc(m)
42
Surface
Road

Notes & Comments

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This was The Big Swim - it is from the most northern beach of Sydney - Palm Beach (filming set for Home and Away) around the big headland and in to Whale Beach. It was a great location and a crazy swim - proper ocean swimming, no calmness and fake ocean. I swam out into the ocean, round a headland and along for AGES and then back in to a beach. Absolutely crazy and really hard!

The start was dreadful. These were proper waves and a whole load of people swimming with/against me. I got out ok, but I had my usual panic and I think it took me a good 10 minutes to settle into any kind of rhythm. That was a complete waste of time. I need to practice swimming out through the waves and getting my breathing normal.

The swim then got good. I was pretty fast (by my standards) out and around the headland and coming in to the finish started really well... I then got smashed by a huge wave, lost my goggles and smacked my head against the seabed:-( Not a good finish.

I will be buying some new goggles next week and hopefully this will teach me to be more careful coming in on the waves.

We followed this up with a pub lunch and a nutella waffle for dessert, so that made things better:-)

Split Summary
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1) 2.82km - 58:50(20:50/km) 1437cal

58:50

	Hedgie18 Sounds brutal Joe! I'm glad it didn't turn out to be too serious. It looks the training is going really well though.
	timbo53 Sounds absolutely awful. Congratulations on completing it (though goodness knows how you could ever cut it short!)
	Cheg Good effort. There is definitely an art to sea swimming. Hope your heads alright.

Pace

35%

21%

32%

Splits

Miles Miles	Time Time	Split Split	Min/mi /mi
0.06	1:44	1:44	27:50
0.12	2:59	1:15	20:11
0.19	4:36	1:37	26:06
0.25	7:18	2:42	43:30
0.31	9:00	1:41	27:13
0.37	10:59	1:59	31:52
0.43	13:06	2:07	34:02
0.50	14:26	1:21	21:36
0.56	15:24	58	15:28
0.62	17:58	2:35	41:28
0.68	20:06	2:08	34:19
0.75	22:07	2:00	32:17
0.81	24:02	1:55	30:50
0.87	25:45	1:44	27:51
0.93	27:29	1:44	27:46
0.99	29:43	2:13	35:48
1.06	33:21	3:38	58:32
1.12	35:53	2:32	40:49
1.18	38:19	2:26	39:09
1.24	40:17	1:58	31:39
1.30	42:40	2:23	38:21
1.37	45:16	2:36	41:49
1.43	47:14	1:59	31:52
1.49	49:59	2:45	44:10
1.55	52:54	2:54	46:47
1.62	55:14	2:20	37:38
1.68	56:26	1:12	19:14
1.74	58:20	1:55	30:49
1.75	58:51	31	35:09

Predictions

Dist	Time	Per Mile
400m	7:26	29:54
750m	14:28	31:03
1km	19:38	31:36
1500m	30:10	32:22
1 mile	32:31	32:31
1.9km	38:46	32:50
3km	1:02:54	33:45
3.8km	1:20:49	34:14
5km	1:48:07	34:48
10km	3:45:24	36:16

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