Hey all, Happy Easter and hope your belly is not trailing
like mine after making a complete sow of myself over Easter. But I can't lie, I
LOVED every second of over-eating and drinking I honestly think I was made to
do this...
Ok I have to admit my last update was a bit depressing looking
over it now – but that’s the way it is. Some weeks are AWESOME and some weeks
are just down right pure and utter SHITE! : )
Last week I ticked off my biggest training week yet…40km -
not massive I know BUT baby steps, baby steps! AND this was an AWESOME week, yipppeeee!
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| Team Awesome! |
Got a very beneficial body scan @measureup with all the
other aspiring channel swimmers organised by a wonderful swimmer and friend
Tara Diversi, who will continue to probe, test and experiment with all swimmers
attending VLAD's cold water camp in melbourne this coming week. The scan gave
very technical information, BMC, BMD, Body Fat %, where in your body the fat is
distributed, and what percentage your
trunk, arms, legs etc store. I am sure this will all be of great benefit when I
have the opportunity to ask Tara what it all means. At first glance I used the
colour chart and appeared to be in the morbidly obese section (which hurt my
feelings); so I immediately rang my partner with a big lump in my throat, to of
course discover that dumb ass was reading it incorrectly and i'm only just
OVERWEIGHT bahahahaha… look that’s only of the perks of open water swimming,
particularly in cold water “you need fat as insulation” yippppeee so all that
hard work of eating ice cream , muffins, chips and all the yummy stuff paid off
– YESSSS I have confidence I won't die of hyperthermia - bring it on!
Anyways moving on from the overweight blah - Good Friday -
mental that while when Jesus was getting crucified I was doing laps of Coogee
beach (this doesn’t sound fair hey). I met
Scott Miers at Coogee with a few of his local swimming buddies and the water
was PERFECT! We covered a decent 7.5km visiting the wedding cake island twice
where it was really choppy, coming at us from every direction - brilliant!
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| Pink was the wardrobe choice of the day... |
This week, my swim club also held its annual 100 x 100
session on Saturday morning in my most favourite pool in the world, Andrew Boy
Charlton. I went to the pool with no expectations or pressure on myself, I just
wanted to cover the 10k and get the funk out of there! But I LOVED IT! I had
never done this set before and was interested to see what way it panned out and
my body would react….and I WAS MAD FOR IT! 3 lanes of crazy amazing people turned up
for this wonderful challenge, all under the order of Sergeant Charm! Coach
Charm cleverly split the set into 10 x 10 100ms (hope you understand this as i'm
confusing myself lol). By the 6th and 7th set of 10s, the
numbers in the lane started to decrease.
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| Sergeant Charm being her normal legend self! |
The 4th, 8th and
9th sets were definitely the hardest and I was busting myself and
giving it everything on the 9th set, thinking that the 10th
set was a cool down – BUT NO, not at all! The last set of 10 x 100ms was to be the
hardest of all! 4 HARD, 1 EASSSSSSSY (x2) …….HOLY F**K!, Charm enthusiastically
says "you’re nearly there, you’re nearly at the other side in relation to
the channel, push hard against the current" (well I think she was saying
this amongst a few japanese and chinese words BAHAHAHA) but her encouragement FLARED me up, BRING IT, it is only 10 more
after all, we have already done 90! I think by the 3rd hard one, my
arms were talking to me – like WTF are you doing, but I kept smiling and I surprisingly
felt good and knew I had a little more in the tank because if I was that close to
the shore of Scotland there is NOT A MISSION I was going to let the current f’
it up and not land my toes on that sand! Coming in on the last HARD of the day at
1min 13 secs – happy camper! Massive congrats to all involved.
Pain is only weakness leaving the body - I must have a lot of
weakness in my body - ouch!
Well done girl. 10x10 100s, that is awesome. We've just started back in the lake, and I'm just glad to get 1k done. Keep up the good work and see you soon.
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