Training week 12 - best week yet

This is a particular problem for me, Mr Designer, as I have to appear in newspapers and on blog sites in a range of your over-snug artificial-fibred products.

I have already had to squash my pasty-white British-tan legs into a pair of padded cycling shorts for the amusement of Journal readers.
And now I face the prospect of using a shoe-horn to get myself into my new triathlon wetsuit and being photographed in it too.
From there, Mr Designer, my humiliation would be completed if I were to pose publicly in my knee-length Speedo jammer swim shorts (don't worry reader, this will NEVER happen).

Yes, I know what you have said in the past about streamlining and technological advances improving performance, but can this really be of assistance at my lowly level of competition?
I look forward to your prompt response and will happily test a new range of products for you in exchange for you giving them all to me at no cost.
Yours,
Jon.
You can tell from this letter, dear reader, that my new wetsuit is not the most flattering item of clothing I have put on. Or the easiest in which to breathe.
But I must admit, it is quite cool. Like any bloke, I am a sucker for some weirdly-named technological add-ons I don't understand, which will add substantially to the price tag and will probably do nothing for my overall time.
Although, having said all that, I think the aforementioned swimming gear does make a difference from wearing shorts - even if you're not Michael Phelps.
I think I've been improving in the pool since my utter humiliation at the hands of City of Newcastle Masters, but it's sometimes difficult to know without a stopwatch and when you regularly lose track of how many lengths you've done.
So when I stumbled across the training diary I started keeping in December (then ditched after about three weeks due to boredom) I was nearing on ecstatic to discover I've knocked 11 minutes off my 1,500m time in six months.
The discovery formed part of my best week in yonks - I was back on track training after a ropey month; I ran the best part of 20 miles without any reaction from my injured calf; my place in the London triathlon was sown up; my first sponsors started promising money after I set up a justgiving account and, as well as the free wetsuit, Asics decided to give me a pair of £100 running shoes.
All in all, not a bad week. Now just need to learn how to ride that bloody bike......

Training week 12
Saturday - 9.94km run - 47.52mins
Sunday - 20min cross trainer + 40mins weights session
Monday - 2000m swim - 38mins
Tuesday - 9.89km run - 47.14mins
Wednesday - 2500m swim - 48mins
Thursday - 1hr spin class
Friday - 2000m swim - 35mins
Saturday - 9.95km run - 46.48mins