Friday this week was our biggest and hardest swim to date - of my life in fact! Al and I met at Takapuna Beach just before 7am to begin our 6 hour session. Conditions were not the best, to put it mildly, an overcast day and a 2 metre swell on the water! We fed every hour and probably needed more but we had no support boat today so could only eat when we got back to the beach after each lap. The swim was made harder by the lack of a boat as the swell made it extremely difficult to sight the buoys and we had to breathe very high to ensure we were going in the right direction. Six hours was tough and tiring but was also a great confidence booster in that I was sure I could continue and complete the last 6km that would take us to 26km and the whole distance across the Strait. A cup of tea and snacks, and the support of Jane Logan, one of our coaches, hit the spot as we finished! Now I find I am impatient to do the actual swim but there is still a couple of months to go..
The other big event was the launch of the competition that will raise funds for the Autism Foundation at the Manukau Steamers event on Waitangi Day. You can now enter this at www.bigswim.co.nz - for $10 you can guess the time that I will be in the water for on the big day and the closest estimate will win flights and accommodation for 2 people to Fiji! Enter now, and let all your friends know too so they can have a guess. We may be able to coincide the swim with World Autism Awareness Day on 2 April but that, of course, is dependant on the weather! Meanwhile back to the training...
No comments:
Post a Comment