I can't believe it has been two and a half months since I last posted, so what have I been up to since then. Well for about 6 weeks training went out the window because of my A level exams. I often wonder why I open my mouth and agree to things, because for almost every minute of that 6 weeks when I was not working I was revising. I can safely say I hate revising, but hopefully it will be all worth it, when the results come out next week.
I did a little bit of training in July, but I was working away for a couple of weeks which stopped me and then out of the blue I developed a depressive episode, scarily I was that bad I could not even face going to work. All I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and cry. It took so much will power to pull my self out of it, and I have spent the last few weeks working through the depression and now feel I am coming out the other side thank goodness. I think the scarey thing about this episode is that I had no warning and could not put it down to being caused by anything in particular.
I am pleased to say that for the last couple of weeks training is back and I have entered the open water event at lakeside in september to give me a bit of a push, I am only doing 3.8k but really looking forward to it.
So back in the pool building up time and speed, and back out in open water on friday. I have also been going to exercise classes at riverside ice and leisure these include different types of Zumba (totally rubish at these), body combat (still need co-ordination which I don't have but did enjoy it) and today I did a body pump session (this was brilliant) followed by a 1600m kick session in the pool.
Next week I need to achieve a distance of 3.2k to ensure that I am on schedule for my channel swim next year. Hopefully will post at least every week from now on to let you know what I'm up to and how my progress is going for my second attempt next year.
Would be good it you could publish a comment and let me know what you are all up to at the moment.
