Finding Mo and Jo
23 December 2022
Mojo in swimming is that feeling of seemingly super-human power and super high doses of motivation where endless hours staring down at the bottom of the pool or ocean is enjoyable and you want more of it! Where snapshots of life, as you breathe side to side, makes you feel like a speed boat when in fact you are actually a displacement hull put putting through the water compared to the outside world. When it feels as if you will never run out of breath and blowing bubbles under water is as natural as breathing out on dry land.
It has been an up and down few months, but I finally seem to have found my mojo again. Just in time, might I say, with only four weeks left before D-day (or D-week as it is weather dependent). Every time I seemed to get on top of the world I would get dragged down and crash. First I went down with Covid, then the Flu, then a shoulder injury, then a Yersiniosis bacterial infection. It also probably did not help that I tried to work the training thing out by myself, with a motto of more, more, more, which in hindsight and finally reaching out to other swimmers contributed to the major crashes along the way.
But I am back and in high spirits (long may it last) and looking forward to the adventure that lies ahead.
Thank you to everyone who have, and still are helping me along the way. I figured out the hard the way that this swim is way bigger than just one person.
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