Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Good luck to our Rotto swimmers and a bit of inspiration in the form of an 11yr old boy!



Hey Swimmers

Hope you've had a good start to the week and if you've made it down to the squad sessions over the last 10 days that you've benefitted from the added assistance of the 10 coaches we've had on pool deck - their assistance with the 7am Monday Pure Technique Session offering plenty of stroke correction advice to every swimmer, was a particular highlight for us.

We just wanted to take this opportunity to wish those of you competing at the Rottnest Channel Swim this Saturday the very best of luck. The conditions look great at this stage with a light ENE wind shifting to NW in the early afternoon with the possibility of a bit of drizzle in the morning (40%).

I'll be assisting squad swimmer Bec Johnson with swim one of three of her amazing marathon swimming campaign as part of her "Life Without Limits 2020" bid to raise awareness and funds for Diabetes WA. Bec will also be swimming the Port to Pub 25km swim and then a Rottnest double attempt a few weeks after that. Totally amazing! You can find out more about this here:

https://www.facebook.com/lifewithoutlimits2020/

...and on the ABC radio interview here:

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/focus/type1/11977062

And if you're looking for a little inspiration for this weekend in the form of our podcast last week with the world's youngest ever English Channel Swimmer, Tom Gregory, who swam the Channel in 1988 at the age of 11yrs 333 days (!) why not have a little listen here - you'll be very glad you did! Here's the link:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/swim-smooth/id1441577778

Finally, this age-old article on tips on how to avoid (and deal with!) shoulder issues this weekend, take a look here:

https://swimsmoothperth.blogspot.com/2012/02/tips-to-manage-shoulder-fatigue-pain.html

Good luck everyone and see you on the island!

Paul

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