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Happy FriYAY Team!
There is a saying amongst most athletes, "if its not on Strava, then it didn't happen!!! " Well, that is not always the case and I will gladly put my hand up to say I have been doing hours and hours of 'secret training' in the pool.
Well, to most people it is secret training because I do not make it public on any social media or data app. However, there is an incredible squad of Juniors I swim with, they know exactly the amount of big weekly kms I do. We churn up & down that black line, averaging 5-6 squads per week and I wont even go into the weekly kms we swim because it even scares me!
There has been squads when I have looked at the board and wanted to walk out, there have been sessions where I can not even lift myself out of the pool at the end. I have never taken the soft or easy option. Despite the hurt, there has been some beautiful friendships made, many laughs, dummy spits, and some incredible learnings about the life as a swimmer!
So why on earth would I do something so crazy? Very simple. Its the same reason why trail runners run 100km, or Ironman athletes keep going back for more, why any of us enter a race to be honest.....because there is a thrill in a challenge and those high personal goals to achieve.
For me, to be part of the Helensvale National Squad is an honour. And now, to be at the Masters National Swim Meet at the Olympic pool in Sydney, is something in my wildest dreams I never thought I would be doing.
But like everyone out there with a dream and a goal, these new pathways are so incredibly exciting, rewarding, challenging, fatiguing, but most of all, limitless. I am totally passionate about what I am setting myself to accomplish now and into the future.
There is nothing too big to set ourselves up for if we truly believe in what and why we are doing it. We should all be looking for ways to be the best version of ourselves, to reach for the stars because there is honestly no limits on what the human spirit can achieve.
Lets do This,
Alli |
