Tuesday, May 25, 2010
YES !!
I caught up with my training partners yesterday when I reached the 1,000,000 meters mark. That is 40,000 lenghts of a standard pool since September.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Yes its next Friday night ... if you haven't supported me already maybe you would come along next friday night to the Shelbourne Bar on Mc Curtain Street....if you can't make it don't worry you can still pledge €20 to buy a jockey or a trainer alternativly log on to Mycharity.ie and you canm support either Charity.
Thank you all again for your kind support.

Regards


Liam
Today a few of us Channel aspirants are swimming in the Dam in Iniscarra hopefully for 6 hours or so.The forecast is for an excellant day with air temp up to 24deg hopefully the water will be a toasty 13/14 deg which will allow us to swim for 6 hours.
The forecast is so good that some of our families and friends are comming to support us from the river bank and they intend to fire up the BBQ's and maybe evn go for a paddle on the lake.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Well guys I have managed to continue my training which included only 3 rest days in the last month and a total mileage of 194,500 (7780 lenghts)
My target was the 200k but a small neck injury after a tough swim in ballycroneen last tuesday night has forced me to take a couple of days off and a few visits to Jimmy Cosgrave (Chiropractor Extrodinaire)
My Race night is getting closer and i'm finding it difficult to get on the blower and beg for sponsorship and or prizes..
We are taking the weekend off as a very good friend of ours is getting married in Blarney and afterwards to Inchydonney Island......so i'd say I might have to break out and have a pint or 2......don't tell Eilis..
Sunday, May 09, 2010
The last 2 weeks have certainly been the toughest for me.
My joints are begining to creek under the pressure, I have swum nearly 100,000 meters in the last 14 days thats 4000 lengths of a 25m pool !!
Now over half of these have been in water less then 11deg.Coach has us on a very tough regeme for the next month or so with loads of hours in the open water.

My Racenight is in 3 weeks time and I need all of you to dig deep and support my swim and the chosen charities.

I don't think we will see the pool again unless the weather turns against us....

Another Degree or so would be good for the long swims though....

11 weeks to go to my swim date....

Liam
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Well we went to the river today 5 of us brave souls 3 without wetsuits and swam 5 km in the cold river water....
I was sick of Ned doing rings around me as I was so slow and he was really speedy today......


Good swim though and Thank you to all the Hurley Family for the hot tea and support Kayak's..

Liam
Well done to all of my training partners who along with myself swam for 9 hours in the pool on Friday last and then we went to the sea for over a half an hour....
Approx 1140 lenghts of the pool and then another 40 or so in the sea.... with a temperature difference of 20deg's (29 in the pool and 9 in the sea)

We all felt great after the dip in the sea.

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I am a 40 year old happily married man with 3 fantastic children and a very supportive wife...........And I'm going to swim the English Channel !!

I live in Cork City, Ireland and I am the owner of Sheilas Hostel (www.sheilashostel.ie) and Gabriel House (www.gabriel-house.com) .

I have returned to my childhood sport of swimming after 26 years and I now train in Source under the watchfull eye of my coach Eilis Burns.





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