Saturday, August 21 2010

woke at 6 am (slept ok, but drank too much wine the night before so not a good sleep)

SWIM:  7:15
Comments:  my last long swim — I had a dinner party friday night so mentally and physically was not ready for a long swim.

On the drive to Castel beach in Nice, I discovered that I had to go to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for a meeting on Monday so my mind was not focused at all on the swim.

Once in the water – I got into my rythm and the swim was ok.

I stopped after 3 hours for a water break (where i left my bag) and called my assistant in Dubai to hear about my flight details — that took 10 minutes … then got back in the water, but this time i got stung by many jelly fish and the time crawled by.

I will need to be much more focused and mentally tough to finish the channel.
Today was a long swim, but no where near the quality and focus it should have been