Summer has hit us here in Auckland with a bang - the wind is still cold but the burn time has to be about 15mins! It's as hot as hell in my Natural Energy Lab the name I have affectionately given my sunny little courtyard to the rear of my house - but the wind has that bite that clearly reminds us all that winter was not long ago. (Not as hard as the bite of the pod of Orca that were swimming off matakatia Bay earlier this week - what a treat!).
Anyway - the summer brings swimming - and swimming reminds most that they need some more lessons so they can kick some ass come race day. My weeks have booked out fast, and I seem to be squeezing people in all over the place for there summer swim technique tune ups! This is good - but you need to get in quick if you want a lesson in the immediate future! Endless Pools enquiries have also hotted up - the phone and email keeps ringing and pinging alerting me of the latest enquiry into pools and Fastlane Machines - great stuff!
My swim kids from Coast Swim Club are breaking Personal Best times at each meet they attend which is really exciting - they are training well and hard and the technique work and race strategy pep talks I give them are helping them race intelligently...! Yay! It is a real buzz to see them acheiving results - they swim so hard and deserve the recognition.
That's what happens in my world once I settle back into life at the beach. My work becomes my life again - which is all great, let me tell you - and swaying palm trees and athletic bodies become distant memories, and fuel for positive visualisation. Which brings me to my training progress...I seem to have finally slipped back into the groove, and am feeling good heading out 5 days a week to do something resembling a swim or a bike or a wee run. I ran 25mins on Tuesday this week - YAY! Archiles and associated muscle groups were tight, reminding me of their potential to have me laying low for yet another 6 weeks, but I managed to hold some form resembling a relaxed running style, and ticked over a few K's at a plod, averaging about 6'10min per km. Not too far off my IM Marathon race pace! Ha! Just got to get to a point of running something close to 30kms before 5March, so one has to cross ones fingers and hope like hell the rate of improvement picks up drastically! I was asked yesterday if this injury has upset me, and to tell you the truth, I think I only got upset on 3 occations - the rest of the time (9 months) I have lived in a happy bubble of denial that all will be well in my world! First time was the moment the tearing began - ouch - IM over / the second time was DURING IM whilst holding myself up off the ground on my hands and knees at the 2.5km mark and willing myself to continue / and the third time would have to be day after IM when I saw the results to see that a 4hr30m marathon would have given me a Kona spot! And that's it - ha - those 3 times are tragic enough I guess, why dwell on it and prolong the misery.
So the happy little camper that I am, I continue to celebrate each new milestone as I acheive them. IM this year will be a HUGE acheivement - so here we go....bring it on!
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