8 Months till Rottnest Channel Swim...

 Eight months till the Rottnest Channel Swim, and training continues. Its been a month of so much, from emotional situations, to learning to be come a more efficient swimmer, to pushing higher kilometers per week in the pool. Oh and making sure I get plenty of coffee after each and every swim...except Tuesdays which are becoming my rest day.

This past week I have started having issues with broken sleep, so the body is having to adjust to this as situations in life have caused this changed in my sleep pattern, and as I work in the afternoon through to evening, it makes for a very long day, when I get up before sun up for swim sessions. Now I wouldn't change the swim sessions at all, but would like to get back to a good sleep pattern.

I have found in making the small conditioning changes that I have been given I am already seeing changes for the better, and not having such sore shoulders, and even though I am more fatigued during the session, looking at the data, I am finding I have picked up the pace and swimming faster, though feel more efficient, and so from now on, its only going to get better.

So with only four and a bit months till the first 10 kilometer qualifying swim, things seem to be well in place for making the 4hr 15min cut off time. If we make it around the 4hr mark I will so happy as the rest of the season from November to February will be training time with some open water races, to keep the open water training going and staying in the right frame of mind as well.

So with one more swim session for this week, an not quite making the 25km for the weeks total, I am cool with that, as I can see good progression this week and with that in mind, making myself hit the 25km each week isn't always going to be essential. Making good efficiency progress is the key at the moment.

I hope everyone has such an awesome weekend...

Hayley xx