Busy, busy, busy!

I haven't stopped since getting back from Delhi!


I've done a couple of photoshoots. Myself, Liam Tancock and Becky Adlington did a shoot with Simon from GB Swimstars which was really good fun – I can’t wait to see what the shots look like. And the other shoot I did was with Liam Tancock at the Nottingham Virgin Active which is such a great gym – it’s in an old train station so the walls are all old red brick, stunning! The shoot was for Speedo’s Aquafit products, I even got involved in an Aqua Aerobics class when I was there...which was great fun and pretty hard too!!


I also had a lovely surprise awaiting me when I got back, for which I’d like to thank Links of London. They gave me a London 2012 friendship bracelet which is my new favourite piece of jewellery! They gave it to me as congratulations for my medal at The Commonwealth Games, so kind of them.


Now that’s all done and dusted, I am currently at the start of a three week training camp in Sierra Nevada, Spain. It’s an altitude training camp at 2,300m above sea level, it should be an interesting experience as I have never been this high before!! We get back home on the 22nd December which is pretty close to Christmas so I’ve had to be really organised this year and have all my presents sorted before I went away. It’s also my birthday while I'm away so that should be a nice break in the camp.


I've been back in the water for only 5 weeks and so far it’s going well, it’s not been easy that’s for sure, but I’ve enjoyed getting some hard work done!


The weekend before we flew to Spain, I raced at the Stockport Open Meet which went brilliantly! On Friday night I swam the 1,500m and clocked a 16.29.4 long course which is only 15 seconds off the British record!! Not bad for 5 weeks of training! For Saturday and Sunday the meet went from long course to short course and I did the 400m Medley in a 4.41 and the 200m Freestyle in a time of 1.59.8. I was really pleased with my swims and looking forward to racing them at nationals next March.


I’ll let you know how I get on in Spain!