Small thing but maybe the swimmers out there can relate. Discovered today that I've been doing breaststroke wrong for the past 40 years!! After realising that I have a very high stroke rate, I did a bit of reading. Tweaked my glide phase (quite radically) today and knocked 20 strokes and 30 seconds off my 100m. 🏊♀️ Would like to go back in time and have a word with my school PE teacher, who I've just found out wasn't just a mean bully, she was also very wrong. 🐬
An attempt at some nice restorative yoga today to deal with stress (we had a late night emergency visit to the vets last night, all is well but we are all frazzled.). 🧘♀️
The yoga was interrupted by an urgent outing to the doggy toilet, which even for number ones is a massive performance at the moment. 🫗 🐕
Between my walking boots still being wet and the forecast predicting more rain, I didn't fancy a long walk but I thought I could at least go "around the block": the basic route we used to do daily with our dog when we didn't have a more exciting walk planned.
It's 3km of farm tracks and country lanes. I saw the biggest acorns I've ever seen, cows munching vividly green grass and a bird of prey hovering over its lunch. A good use of 35mins.