I thought I was only going to have a 5 hour swim on Saturday, so was pretty surprised when the Channel General gave me 7 hours in choppy waters (what is going on with the wind this summer!?!)
We, the swimmers, never know what swim length we are going to be doing until 5 mins before the swim - this training technique is called Total Body Confusion and is designed to make you more mentally agile to deal with unexpected issues during sport. Although the theory sounds great its pretty demoralising when your standing on the beach with drizzling rain at 8.30am and your told you're going to be in the water until 4pm!
The swim however was okay. I swam the whole way with a partner, Rob - something I've not done before - and it helped make the time go quicker, probably speeded me up a bit and made me realise how important the support swimmer will be on the channel attempt.
Sunday was a bit more leisurely as just did 4 hours, however I actually found that pretty hard as with some of the shorter swims you sometimes don't give them the 'respect' they deserve and are always checking your watch.
However the Channel General said for me the long swims are now done - time to start tapering down (great news......) and start getting things together for the swim on the second week of August.
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You missed a bit out: "and thankfully at the end of my four-hour swim on Sunday I bumped into Nic and swam with her which was completely brilliant." :-D
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