We had seen that there was a very lush looking bay in Erquy, so on Monday headed down with Nat, Don & Albert to the beach. James and I got suited up and headed out to swim to the buoy, but much to our dismay, seemed to take just a few strokes. I felt a little out of my depth, so headed back in and swam along the shore line, where I saw a massive fish and millions of tiny fish, plus some nearly naked old people!
The week continued much on this vain. Thursday's swim was a bit choppier, so I cried this one off and got out pretty quick, coupled with James ripping his brand new wetsuit (!) so we ran instead. We caught a couple of Tour stages, very exciting and really helped to inspire me.
On our final day (Friday) we headed to Mini Mt St Michel and found a lovely sheltered beach to swim from, to the other side across a river mouth. The water was probably only 7ft deep at the most, with turquoise water and a sandy bottom, so clear we could see the crabs sitting at the bottom with claws up. I told myself to relax and enjoy, and do you know what? I did, finally it started to sink in, I was relaxed and comfortable and it felt very smooth too, great swim to finish the week.
Afterwards, James, Don and I put on our running kit and headed off to run back to our campsite, about 10miles away around the coastal path. There were more glorious sandy beaches and hidden coves and quite alot of climbing, and steps to contend with. Finally we got back tot the campsite in 1hr45 (the boys were back a bit before me as I had twinged something in my foot) but it was truly an amazing run. and a fab training week for my confidence.
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