Been swimmin'

1200m Gareth & I went for a pool swim on Friday evening. The original idea was to get straight in and rattle off 48 (x 25m) lengths to get an idea of a 1.2km time, instead of the usual messing around trying to drown myself under the guise of practising front crawl. The pool was empty and flat so I completed the 48 in 34 minutes. Which is ok.
1.5km But then thought "oh, 12 more lengths would be 1.5km".
1 mile And then thought "Just another 4 would be a mile". So we ended up doing a mile. Completed this in 47 minutes.
It's good to know that these distances are possible with little or no practice so I reckon there's a possibility to beat 5 minutes off that 1200m time especially if wearing streamlined trunks like tri shorts instead of draggy boxers :)