A great kickstart to the swimming!!

Just a quick as not much has changed recently, weight is still dropping a little by little and am confident of getting under my last race weight by the months end and then to see what effect that has on my body and training!

On the weekend, I participated in a teams 24hour mega swim. This involved teams of 15 constantly swimming for the entire 24hours....Yep, maybe stupid, maybe ridiculous, but all for a good cause and also a good way to give my swimming a great kick start.

Being a part of Team Xosize, a few of us decided that we would do the graveyard shift. So I got there at 9 pm and was there with Leigh Ryan and Greg Farrell, Greg was at the end of the shift and Leigh was doing a 12 hour shift.....WTF!!! Yep craziness!! So with just Leigh and I there from 10pm til 2.30 am we decided that we would do 2km stints and the other had to recover on whilst counting laps!! Not much fun, I must say that it was definitely better in the water passing the time, although the cramps did get me early!!

With me being anal about counting laps in the pool I decided that I would also time myself to see how much I would drop off over the night. My goal for the night was anywhere between 10-12kms.

So my first 2km stint was over in 30min 10sec, which I was happy about...My only problem was that I was swimming with a sub 26min swimmer for the same distance. So my recovery was not as much as Leigh's!! My second stint was done and dusted in 40 mins, but this time it included 400m backstroke to mix it up a little....a 2.4km stint....as if I needed to any more and then get less rest!!! What was I really thinking, apart from swimming at midnight, why would I do more than what was agreed?!?!

The third stint was around the 35min for the 2km and I was just finding a comfy rhythm knowing that I still had another 5-6kms to swim before I had reached my goal. So after 8.4km, Cam arrived and we then decided to swim 500m each and rotate this until more reinforcements arrived at about 4.30am. I was doing the 500m stints in 7min 30 sec whilst Leigh was carving out low 6's....Surely the guy realised that we needed more rest than him.....Might have to speak to him about this!!

So after getting a total of 11km done for the evening, I was done. Leigh had completed a lazy 20km, a crazy effort and just to prove that he wasn't done he punched out a 2.15min last 200m at 6am....12hours after he got there.....Dude, get a life!!!

Anyway, was a great night and one that I know has got me motivated to swim more, once I recover from this one!! If you get a chance to participate, I would recommend it and get some good mates to make the time enjoyable.

For now...

X-Man