Journey to Boston...Midway through week 3

Still Dreaming....

After reading on Facebook today that nearly two thousand people didn't make it to Boston 2015, and that was with 30,000 places available. I still dream of doing the Boston Marathon in 2017, and if I don't make it in for that year I will continue to reach for my dream the following year. This puts everything into perspective of just how big a race this is, and just how many people around the world have the same dream.

As I am still recovering from my sore back, I went to my physiotherapist to have my back put back into place as it still didn't feel right, so with the sound of..."crunch" it was back where is should be and with great relief, then it was to the shins. Well they were sore to the touch, and with eight acupuncture needles (four down the shin of each leg) and a few twists and turns, they were feeling better, so fingers crossed when I get on the treadmill for my warm up tomorrow morning they should be feeling better.

Swimming this week has been great, getting back into the swim of things (sorry about the bad pun). Its great being in the water, for me being in the pool or ocean is just so very relaxing. Some people I speak to don't like the pool and find it very boring, I just love the feel of the water. I have days where I love doing dolphin kick, and when I get into the swing of it, I can do 25m without surfacing, and the feeling of coming up to the surface like a dolphin does, is just so awesome. 

This week at the gym, has renewed my spirit in my strength training.  Doing weights on Monday afternoon was totally awesome, I was on such an endorphin rush that I hadn't had for ages. It was like feeling every fiber in my arms, legs, abs and back being on fire. That heat you feel through your body when you know you have pushed enough without hurting yourself. The only thing you feel the next day is all the muscles you forgot you had. DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) got to love them. What I did find was, I felt ten times better after swimming on the second day after being to the gym. 

Rest days, this week I have had two rest days, Tuesday as I needed to go and see my dietitian and then straight to work, and today, as I will be going to the gym with my daughter in the morning and then to the pool. Tomorrow's session will be, upper body at the gym as I am back to running on Saturday, and the pool will be constant freestyle (front crawl) for an hour to see what sort of distance I get done.

Over this weekend (long weekend) its time to sit down and work out the small goals. These are the short races for running (between 5-15km) and swimming, open water swimming series. These are 2.5km swims and I will probably do a 5km race before I swim the Busselton Jetty Swim which is 3.6km in one of Western Australia's most beautiful locations.

So I say goodnight and leave you with this to ponder...

Till Sunday, Hayley xx