And so it begins, I join the gym (City Gym - St. John Street, Tauranga) it's a good gym, 24 hr, 7 days a week and CHEAP AS CHIPS! only $28 per month and an $80 joining fee. I got a program from the trainer, (actually, I joined the gym before I decided to do this race), and started to read a bunch of books pertaining to the task in hand. I settle on The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming for my programs in the gym and I head back to the Otumoetai Pools along with my training programs I got off the ZOGGS swimming website that I used to help me train for the Ocean Swim at Mount Maunganui in 2008. Training up to 6 days a week, 3 in the pool and 3 in the gym.
Lately, I have been swimming longer distances, up to 2100 mtrs having started my swim training with a mere 600mtr swim and progressing to longer distances as I went through the programs I have. Last Thursday I was at the pools and Kathy Miller (a triathlon coach) was there training her squad. After I finished my session, I approached Kathy and told her I was looking for a coach to help me in my quest. She was more than happy to help me out and so today, I had my first session with Kathy and 3 others : Paul (Kathy's husband) and 2 ladies Dianne and Jo. We did 2km of swimming, sprints, drills and a shit load of kicking drills.
At the end of it all, I was absolutely buggered, but that's why we do this sort of thing... Isn't it?
So, for $60 for 10 sessions I now have a swim coach and a squad to train with, I'm pretty happy about that.
That's all for today - GOODNIGHT
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