After todays training session I can report that I am on track to swim fast in beijing.
Today we did a time trial for 150m Individual medley, wearing my new swim suit the FSPRO.
My time, 3.24 was 2 seconds faster than my best time of 3.26.86 so I am very excited!
Even though this was a broken Medley (with 5 seconds rest at the end of each lap) it is a good indicator of the time I could race in Beijing as in a race you have atmosphere and adrenalin to get you going faster. Before the Athens Paralympics my final time trial was exactly the time I ended up swimming to win bronze.
We finished off today with 20 25's freestyle off 1 minute, and I kept them all under 31.5 seconds which was great.Then a swin down.
Unfortunately I somehow ripped a huge hole in the leg of my suit so this will be my last practice in the suit till I arrive in Beijing and am issued with the team uniform swim suit.
Today I invited my mum Marion along to video my session, so I will have a record of my progress towards Beijing. It also added some incentive to swim fast, as I didnt want a slow session imortalised on film! Hopefully I can put together a nice little doco with footage from my race, the village and the training beforehand. We also took lots of photos which you can see down the side of this blog.
Out of the water I am starting to get organised. I have a giant list of things to do and buy before Beijing- everything from shampoo to an aussi flag to wave from the medal dais.
I have even practiced painting my finger nails green and gold, with a tiny Australian flag on the thumb ( a very intricate process to paint I can tell you!).
It has been super exciting watching the Olympics on TV and seing Steph Rice and Libby Trickett win gold, and local sunshine Coast swimmer melanie Schlanger win bronze with the relay team. I can't wait to get over to Beijing!
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