1 Month to go

Today is yet another landmark day. Today it is exactly one month until the London Paralympic Games begins, and two weeks before the swim team head off to our training camp over in Swansea.

The swim team is going to be based in Swansea from Tuesday the 14^th August until Saturday the 25^th of August at which point we will be traveling to the Paralympic village. The team will be in Swansea to conduct their pre-games staging camp.

The past few weeks have defiantly been keeping me busy after returning from Australia’s training camp it was back into the pool continuing to build on the hard work that we did whilst away. The weekend following my return we had a time trial swim. The aim of this swim was to see where my times were at and monitor how I was tracking in my build up to the games. My time was slightly off my personal best time but overall we were happy with how this swim went at this point in my preparation

Once I had finished my time trial I went to the Jet Park Inn hotel where we had a team information weekend. All on the Paralympic athletes that are based in New Zealand were at this information weekend so it was a good chance to meet the member of the team from other sports that I have not had much to do with up until this point. We also got to see our uniform for the first time while we were there. It is a predominately black and white uniform with dashes of blues and gray on some of the garments

This weekend just been I was back in the pool racing again. This time we were racing at the Auckland relay champs, the team that I was racing with did extremely well. I was in North Shore’s B team for the 4x100 Freestyle, which finished 2 overall so not a bad result.

Lastly I have had a lot of people asking when I will be racing, where they will be able to watch my races, and how they can keep up with my progress. I will be trying to get these emails out more often when I was over in London and racing. But as well as this I am currently working on a new section to my website which I hope to have up and running before I leave. This will have the dates and approximate times of when I will be racing as well as links to where races can be watched online. Sky sport will be covering the games but they are only going to be having two one-hour slots each day of highlights. I will let people know once I have got this section up and running.