I have instituted an email system to remind me to blog about this experience each day. My instructions to myself include “And do something each day to blog about.” It’s a good way for me to think about my preparations at least once each day.
Today, I did yoga and I’m resting. Those may not seem like steps along the path to an English Channel swim, but sometimes they are the most important steps. I’m feeling overtrained still, in the form of being more generally negative and pissy than is entirely warranted (or at all). Hopefully today will get me over it and I’ll be ready for big yardage Thursday. I’m hoping to get in a comfortable 10,000. If I can do that the next 3 weeks and hold my body together, I’ll feel ready for the 10K.
Life lesson takeaway – whenever you try to do something big it will get in the way of your life, becoming an extra part-time or even full time job. This is manageable, IF you plan and account for it. It’s also why I’m glad I’m doing something I love. I just watched the John Oliver show about the crazy numbers of people who are now summiting Everest (to the point of there being a poop avalanche problem), and I wonder how much joy some of those folks are actually getting from the experience. A lot of them seem not to be into mountaineering so much as instagram.
I just want to swim from one country to another country. Cause how cool is that?
