Another week finished...next please...

No matter what you do in your life, find something that will challenge you, and I hope you will see positive changes.

Well today I signed up for the half marathon in Busselton, and the Jetty Swim. Now super excited that I have a short term goal to reach.

This week will be focused more on swimming as I need to rest my shins as they are really sore, and if I don't they won't heal, means no running, which means really cranky me. As I have been trying to re-adjust my running form, I have now got shin sores (splints). I have been given many different ways to treat them, from standing for long periods on my toes with my heal on a centimeter or two from the ground, Radox/Epsom Salt bath, then rub them out, to resting. I will probably try all of these, and see which one works best, as I don't really want my physio pushing his thumbs of steel into my shins and getting rid of them that way, or I will be in tears.

Swimming focus will be to do two sessions of interval work, which reads something like this:

Freestyle/frontcrawl x 400m

Breast stroke x 300m

Kicking with board x 300m

and repeat as many times as I can in 1 hour

I will also do an endurance swim which will be for about 1 hour 30 mins to see what sort of distance I can get done in that time. I enjoy both sessions, though the endurance swim is never easy as you need to keep you mind from so called running away from you, and you don't want to over analyse what you are doing either. Its a challenge.

I will also be in the gym working on different areas of my body, mainly upper body to build more strength for the swim. Abs for the running and swimming, and to look good to. Then Saturday I will try the run again and see how I pull up, I am also going to try out some of my other runners (shoes) to see if that helps, I originally used to wear Newton Running shoes which were great to get me from being a heal striker to a forefoot runner, now as I need to adjust a little it will be worth trying some other runners. 

Whether your dreams are big or small, challenge yourself to make your dreams a reality!

Have an awesome week everyone!

Hayley xx