LIVE DEEPLY, TREAD LIGHTLY
2015 has passed and as we embark on a new year I’d like to reflect on 2015. From a swimming perspective I started 2015 with a Robben Island Crossing and ended the year swimming around Cape Point. Quite a fitting start and end to a somewhat tumultuous year. In between...
I did one of the toughest races I ever done last week. It was a race called the ’25 piers’ organised by Durban Surf Lifesaving club. There was a bunch of over 80 swimmers competing to swim around the pier 25 times. We had to stop after each swim around the pier and...
“If it burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.” Charles Bukowski This week has been a testing week. My body is still recovering from last...
It has been 2 weeks since I last wrote and I still can’t remember the epiphany I had last week that I wanted to share. Last week was a bit of a blur for me. A friend of mine from school lost a five and a half year battle to cancer. He certainly fought hard and lived...
I clearly am still learning lesson no 1 from last week’s blog. This week has been particularly tough in terms of workload as well as emotionally. On Wednesday I was too tired to get up and do my recovery swim session, I opted to sleep and try and process some very sad...
This week was a building week. I started my first ‘sprint’ training session on Thursday and was humbled by it. It was a tough session. I went in with expectations of certain times I aimed to hold, and was 5-10seconds off that time, which in a 75 swim set, is far off...
This weekend I had the privilege of attending a wedding of an amazing couple that I am blessed to call my friends. The wedding was down the coast in Port Edward at a stunning lodge with large expansive lawns, surrounded by tropical foliage at the edge of an estuary. I...
Last week I developed a new strategy for my Monday morning pool sessions, sets of 100m holding a certain time with decreased rest periods over the weeks and increasing sets. I have done 2 Monday sessions and am loving them. I have a goal in mind over the next few...
This week I had the privilege of sharing some of my Pilates knowledge with a bunch of grade 7 & 8's in Amaoti as part of the life skills program with the Domino Foundation. I was told there would be 80 - 100 14 & 15 year old girls and knew I couldn't do this...
I was tired this week and a few times had a fear that I was actually not better and that I really did have chronic fatigue. By Wednesday I was so tired I had to block my diary off and take a nap. Not a regular occurrence for me pre- cfs. I was relieved to hear that my...