7 hours training on saturday and 3 hours on sunday - the taper has now seriously begun!
Weather much better this week and that made a huge difference as it enables you to relax and enjoy the swimming rather than being worried about being cold.
This was my third weekend of doing a 7 hour swim and perhaps unsurprisingly it gets slightly easier every time. During the hours of swimming I was thinking just how relative everything in life is. When we were swimming 2 hours a 3 hour swim was scary, when swimming 4 hours 5 seemed ridiculous; but when you have met / are familiar with these goals they become much less imposing. This is surely the same for most things - i.e. hours worked, acceptable pain threshold etc....
Its made me very interested in just how far you could push the body - if you did 15 hours every week could that become "normal"? Also is it your body adjusting that makes it easier or the fact that you know mentally that you can do it - i.e. no 'fear of the unknown' - I remember someone saying to me that the only people afraid of getting punched on the nose are people who have never been punched on the nose as they cant rationalise the pain - i.e. its never as bad you think it might be.....
Lots of swimmers now going out, including Pete and Kev from the Malta crew who are out at the moment - massive amounts of good luck to both!
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