So today I signed up for something new.

Previously, I have enjoyed running. I don’t claim to be very good at it, but I generally have managed to keep going.

If I try triathlon, I get the chance to be rubbish at three separate sports at the same time – swimming, cycling and then running.

The novice triathlon consists of a 400m swim (sixteen lengths of a 25 m pool), then a 14km cycle ride and finally a 2.5km run. The cycle ride and the run don’t worry me, but the swim… oh, the swim… that’s going to be a challenge!