The open water season is well underway…..

So I look back at my last post and note that my 5 step program to Panic mode has all been completed!
Yay! Well done me for getting through:
- 2 State Ocean swims (Auckland Harbour Crossing and the lovely Russell to Paihia swim)
- 2 Wellington Splash and Dashes (run beautifully by Evelyn and Tomo)
- Entering the Epic Swim 5km and the Masters 2.5km – Lake Taupo January 14th and 15th 2012
- upping my swim sessions to 4 per week
- and eating a whole lot of chocolate along the way.

What’s next?
More training, more searching for that extra ounce of better freestyle technique, and some lounging around on the beach at Taylors Mistake in Christchurch, New Zealand for the Christmas holidays.

This swimming thing never really gets easier, it’s all about perseverance and spending quality time with good friends.

Have a wonderful holiday and see you in the New Year.

Anna

Winter’s cold grip loosens

So the days are getting longer, they must be as the birds are chirping when I’m getting up for my Wednesday early morning swim session.
It’s time to start thinking about my open water swim plans for the coming season.

Here in Wellington, we tend to use a long weekend (Labour weekend) at the end of October as our cue for jumping back into the harbour.
That doesn’t seem so far away right now, so my preparations have begun:

Step 1: Enter the State NZ Open water swim series
Step 2: Book flights for said State swims
Step 3: Consider how far I’ll swim this year at the Epic Swim weekend in Taupo
Step 4: Realise that my 2 swims per week are now not enough to get me ready for these races……
Step 5: Panic
Step 6: Eat chocolate
Step 7……..Calm down and write up a plan.

I’ll get back to you when I’ve got step 7 sorted.

The 40.2 challenge is back!

Sorry folks…..slight technical glitch with the old www.fortypointtwo.org.nz site.

The servers inadvertently got switched off, and so did my website.  I can see this as either a chance to spend some quality evenings improving the content by starting over…..or a horrible waste of time.  I think I better go with the first option.

Step One: Get that list of fantastic 40.2 challenge swimmers back up… I’ll be back posting after I’ve got that sorted. Wish me luck