Two on the soles of my feet - these are from wearing sandals to walk 2.4km to the Post Office and back.
One on that bone of each outer side of my foot - these are from winding my cycling shoes too tight last night amd not slackening them off for the temperature and swollen feet.
Final one is on the top of my big toe - this is from walking the dog in some yacht shoes
I’ve just used nail clippers to pierce them all, but have swapped my “long” run to Saturday morning now, allowing them time to heal (it’ll also be a bit cooler then)
That pace graph is mental, this was steady effort stuff. Uphill at the end and baking hot so I’d say the HR for my easy pace is probably back to normal.
Open water swim testing theory evening.
I’m always super slow after a jog, so wasn’t expecting anything special, just a test of some things…
Warm Up: No Acclimatisation
400m 7:47 1:55/100m
Yup. It’s not pre-race nerves, it’s going off at 1:30/100m and getting out of breath after zero warm up or floating/bobbing around.
I just piled straight into here. Didn’t even have a cold shower. Replicated a race start.
800m wetsuit GPS FNARKED
14:01 for 800m (or 750m depending on who you believe…)
1:45/100m
Then 50.6 seconds extracating myself from the wetsuit, including the run to “transition”
800m skins. No drama. Lovely
Or 750m. Who knows
Anyway, did the loop in 13:58.
About 1:44/100m.
Which is 3s quicker than in a wetsuit
At 21.6° lake temp and 24° air temp.
Ran to transition in 12s.
That’s 38s getting my wetsuit off, to be slower
Hmm…that’s 50 seconds saved over 1.9km…
SO why the hell am I quicker on the final lap in skins, than I was fresh and in a wetsuit?
wrist based HR is utter tripe in the water.
With skins, Im guessing HR will be higher anyway, pumping blood round to keep warm?
But suit was allegedly 118bpm and skins reportedly 148bpm.
RPE was less for skins as I felt nice and loose and warmed up by then.
I think my body position is good, but I have no idea?
I did 5 loops (3.9-4km) skins in 63mins last year. I did 59mins in a suit the week before.
So I think I’m just out of practice and shape this year.
A loop is a loop.
If I veer off course, that’s my own fault.
They say it is 750m, but it’s more like 800m.
I’ve had a crowd source of the leaderboard and they’re all 780m ish.
, I’m off over the Denbigh moors to deepest, Welsh Wales 
