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Not where I had hoped to be physically at this point in time.

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With just over two weeks left until the start of my 8th Vidösternsimmet 21+km I have to admit I am not in the form I had hoped to be.
2023 started off badly because om my back to back lung infections. but I was able to swim a lot of open water in May-June-July-August, This year I was able to swim almost normally with only a few missed practices. But with Lily’s high school graduation and my parents here for 2 weeks, I was barely in the water in June. July started with 8 straight days with no swim practice. Most of my OW friends did not seem interested in swimming outside either…

I will not be able to make up for lost time, but I am hoping to be in the water every day I can. Not to swim fast, or long, but just to swim so my body remembers how it feels. I am not going to be able to swim the 5th-7th because of a business trip.

I have however been able to add over 180km running to 2024 that I did not have last year and I have been biking on a similar basis since November last year.

My first goal for this years race is just to finish. For the first time since I started doing longer races in 2013, I am more concerned about finishing, than what my time is. I am guessing that if I do manage to finish, it will be around 7:20.

Vidösternsimmet (21km + 6km) – 2023

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Last fall I decided to attempt med third 21+6 race at Vidösternsimmet. I had recovered from my 2021 injury and my 2022 Vidösternsimmet swim felt good at 6:23 (8th place) and missing lots of winter swimming. But of course I got hurt again this past winter, and I missed out on nearly 7 months of training.

Being able to swim the 21km was a real positive for me, not swimming fast enough to join the 6km was not great, but probably best for my recovery in the long run.


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The first half of 2023

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The year did not start off great, but is slowly getting back to normal for me. I recovered from my broken elbow and sprained wrist in December 2022, only to get pneumonia in January and again about a week after my last dose of penicillin.

I switch jobs on March 1st, struggled with the long term effects of being sick with pneumonia for the better part of three months. I was sent to Texas to work for 3 weeks before I had even been employed for a full month. I think being in the dryer Texas weather helped my lungs recover, and it gave me a reason to rest from all training. I returned home in time for Easter and since then I have been biking to work, and was able to swim the entire workouts with masters, even if it was with either slow, or a little faster with fins or paddles, or sometimes even both.


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