Birthday Shenanigans

Birthday weekends are apparently not what they used to be and this one featured a lot more working out and a lot less drinking than it would have done 20 years ago!

It started on Friday morning with the Birthday swim - 2 lanes of people knocking out 42 x 100's. Great fun and much 'easier' than you think once you have a crowd of people involved. We swam the 1st 1 km off 2 mins (1.45/100), the 2nd km off 1.55, the 3rd off 1.50 then the last ones with paddles/pull buoys and then fins where we were knocking out the 100's in just over 1.20's. Crazy end to the session but I loved it! We refuelled with coffee and Super G's cupcakes.

A couple of pints on Friday evening but an early night in preparation for the Saturday morning monster spin session. 2.5 hours of sweatfest intervals followed by a mental 20 min run off the bike. The rest of the day involved a more relaxing menu of coffee, cake, snooze and wine before 12 of us headed to the new Hungry Brew Hops Pub in Newmarket for some craft beer drinking and dinner. Great place and highly recommended!

Luckily I seemed to avoid a hangover which was good as I spent most of Sunday swim coaching and bike fitting. We finished off the weekend with birthday wine, dinner and Coronation Street. Wild!!

Thanks everyone who was involved, that was a great weekend!!