Having Faith...

This for me is a difficult lesson to learn. I get so stuck into what I am doing especially sports wise, and when I have an injury that has put me out of running, it was initially difficult to understand why I couldn't go back to running at some point. Over the past couple of weeks I have come to realize that my obsession with running wasn't a healthy one. So in having this foot injury and not running has shown me that I need to look at the healthy benefits of swimming and not the obsessive thoughts. I have been told that I could possibly go back to running at a later time, but I have decided to not even look at that possibility.

Learning to dream new dreams is a little exciting, and knowing that it is ok to have new goals and dreams, well even though this is a childhood dream, just not in a pool and instead in the ocean. Learning the joy of solitude in the water, and being with your inner thoughts, as crazy as they can be at times. For me as a recovering anorexic is a little weird, as I usually don't like being on my own in a position to be able to think. Though for some reason I allow myself this time of distant thinking while in the water.

I mentioned to someone the other day about taking on marathon swimming as I am not running any more. They asked if I was going to do the English Channel Swim which is approximately 20 miles (32.2km). I said to him, it could always be a possibility, but the main thing at the moment in concentrating on building distance and holding a good pace as my distances get longer. So in late January I will take on a 5km open water swim at one of our local beaches in Perth. Then in February do the Busselton Jetty Swim of 3.6km. After February its going to be a matter of building distance and pace and lots of training swims and gym workouts as I hope to do a 10km open water swim in the 2015/16 open water swim season.

Having this foot injury has helped me to see things that I do in a new positive light, even though being in this moon-boot can make me a little grumpy.

Enjoy the rest of your week...

Hayley xx