Going Nomad |
Photo credit: Social Butterfly at Pixabay I have, since I thought of this crazy idea to swim across the Ijsselmeer back in September of last year, I worked with Chris Chalmers in Issaquah. Chris is an extremely experienced coach and I feel lucky to have had a chance to work with him. Closer to home I worked with Teresa Seibel from tri-balance, also an extremely experienced and fun coach to work with. Most likely I will book one final session with my coaches to strategize for bad weather (I only have a strategy for good conditions), but for now I'm on me own … The winter is long and swimming indoors is getting to me; it is becoming tougher to muster up the motivation day after day (the underwater MP3 only helped when it was still a novelty). But … I have my support team for the Ijsselmeer swim, and while there is some 8000 km between me and them, they help, even from that distance. Since I figure that I will have to get in touch with my inner superhero, I bought a Superwoman bathing suit for the 22km long swim and sent my support team a photo of said suit on WhatsApp. I immediately got a text back suggesting that the team cannot lag behind, and so one (female) support person suggested she'd arrive as Superman, one (male) as Mega Mindy (I had never heard of her, must be a European thing), a third (also male) will join me as Superwoman, and the last member, my son, will be Spiderman. So yeah. As I will harness my own inner Superwoman, my team will harness their (gender-bending) superheroes as they support me on my epic swim.
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