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Here's a little story...

A year ago almost to the day, I did a 95kg deadlift in the gym. I had been doing the same weight for a couple of weeks and was feeling positively strong! 

The next thing I felt a crazy pain in my back and I knew something was wrong! 
Fast forward 6 months, and I found myself in an hospital bed waiting a life changing surgery. I'd just completed an awesome  11,000km trip around Southern Africa with the most intense leg pain. I got back and within 4 days booked a surgery to try fix this pain. 

The surgery was hard, but the 6 week recovery was harder and opened up my eyes to my lifestyle and my future as a dad. I knew I had to make some changes in my life! 

On the 6th of September I went for my 6 week checkup and asked the doctor if I could start exercising. They said I could and the next day I was in the pool! I had hardly swam in my life but over the next 6 months I think I pretty much exercised every day, with swimming on 90% of those days! Except for 12 days that my Apple Watch says I haven't done any workouts...

Having a "Swim Family", I decided to enter the Midmar Mile, although I wasn't sure I was ready for it. But I carried on and pushed through till 9:53 this morning when we lined up in our blue caps to start our swim in the Worlds Largest Open Water Race 

I won't lie when I say that swimming 1600m in a dam with 1248 swimmers is pretty daunting. You get whacked from all angles, but as I looked up at the clock as I exited the water, I was shocked to see a time under 35 minutes. 

I'd prepped myself meantally to swim it in around 40 mins so when the official time came through with 34:35, I was absolutely elated. I didn't ever believe that I could get a sub 35, but I had prayed hard for that. 

The point I think I'm trying to get across here, and something I try teach my kids daily, is that when you start believing in yourself and putting your mind to the task, anything is achieveable! 

Almost 20kg's down since I did that deadlift and a lot, lot more to go! 

Here goes! 

Chapter 2 coming soon...

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