Diving Deep...

 These past few weeks have seen me go from being super charged and training well, to getting the flu and loosing my swimming mojo and some happiness in life. So things are on the way back up, I managed to get a 3.4 kilometer swim in today, it was awesome to get into one of my favourite 50 meter outdoor pools and it was as warm as a bath, and it felt like coming home.

Swim cap on, iPod attached to goggles and off I went. The body was a little stiff to start with, but soon got into the flow and rhythm. Back to where I should be. I was on a mission this morning to see what my time would be for 1600m (1 mile) as I have found this amazing event in the USA that is now on my goal list. Its an event I would love to do in the next couple of years. 192 kilometers over seven days, how awesome would it be to conquer that!!

 So with now two big swims in mind, one next February and then another a year or two after its swim baby swim...Its interesting to see that as much as I am going to miss running as I thought I might be able to go back to hitting the pavement, well that is not going to happen as the feet are not going to cope with it and I will only damage them even more and as I am only in my 40's I have a lot of time I need to have good feet to walk on. So for me it will be all about the pool, open water swimming, so Sun, Surf and Sand...oh and chlorine...

So at the moment I am managing to get ten kilometers a week in, well as of Monday it jumps to 25 kilometers to push that much more. Now with this comes injury risks, that is why I am luck to have great people in my life who are able to help with physiotherapy and conditioning to help me reduce the risks.

So with this new lease on life and swimming again and feeling pumped, its back into the water again on Monday morning. Tomorrow will be a rest day before we kick start the new program.

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend...

Hayley xx