חוויה נהדרת בעמק חפר!
מתנצלת. באנגלית הפעם.
3k open water swim this morning at Emek Heffer. Started with letting a sea turtle go free after treatment and recovery from an injury (one of her front flippers was somehow ripped off). Moving.
Last year I couldn’t do this swim, as I was still taking the multi-side effect anti-cancer drug, Nexavar. Two years ago, I swam it alone, didn’t take a sports gel in the middle – it was an unsuccessful experiment to see how I felt in an 1:30 swim without a supplement in the middle. That was also before the longer, 4.5k Port 2 Port swim, which this year will be this coming Friday. The water was choppy then. I couldn’t see the buoys, and felt weak and miserable for much of the swim.
Today, I was able to “draft” on other swimmers’ feet (floating on their bubbles makes life a lot easier), lead some of the way, and alone just a bit. Also choppy, but found the buoys, or when I couldn’t see them, followed others. At one point, I saw a swimmer with an ironman tattoo on his ankle, and figured he would keep an even pace and could navigate straight. When I finally passed him, it was someone from my group!!
I loved each moment. Worked. Took a gel in the middle. Came in second in my age group, which I expected, BUT by only 2:30 minutes, not by my usual 20 behind the same woman! I was the oldest woman in the race. J
Great fun!!
And of course the dichotomy… this body has cancer?
Love and have a good week!
Susie
מתנצלת. באנגלית הפעם.
3k open water swim this morning at Emek Heffer. Started with letting a sea turtle go free after treatment and recovery from an injury (one of her front flippers was somehow ripped off). Moving.
Last year I couldn’t do this swim, as I was still taking the multi-side effect anti-cancer drug, Nexavar. Two years ago, I swam it alone, didn’t take a sports gel in the middle – it was an unsuccessful experiment to see how I felt in an 1:30 swim without a supplement in the middle. That was also before the longer, 4.5k Port 2 Port swim, which this year will be this coming Friday. The water was choppy then. I couldn’t see the buoys, and felt weak and miserable for much of the swim.
Today, I was able to “draft” on other swimmers’ feet (floating on their bubbles makes life a lot easier), lead some of the way, and alone just a bit. Also choppy, but found the buoys, or when I couldn’t see them, followed others. At one point, I saw a swimmer with an ironman tattoo on his ankle, and figured he would keep an even pace and could navigate straight. When I finally passed him, it was someone from my group!!
I loved each moment. Worked. Took a gel in the middle. Came in second in my age group, which I expected, BUT by only 2:30 minutes, not by my usual 20 behind the same woman! I was the oldest woman in the race. J
Great fun!!
And of course the dichotomy… this body has cancer?
Love and have a good week!
Susie
