Wednesday 16 May 2012

My next big adventure

Last Wednesday I received the official email announcing my selection on the Australian University Sport team to compete at the World Uni Champs in Taiwan in June. For as long as I can remember it has been my dream to represent Australia and now is my first chance to live out that dream!!! To say I'm excited would be an understatement. Never having raced overseas before (except in NZ as a junior) this is definitely going to be a huge learning experience!

We will be travelling over to Taiwan as a team and staying with all the athletes and officials from the other countries. I'm looking forward to meeting people from all over the world. The race itself is on the 30th June with the opening ceremony on the 29th and the closing the following day.
Yesterday was quite exciting as I submitted my sizes for the Australian uniform which looks fantastic. Of course the real reason I want to go is so I can get an Australian Tracksuit... States, Nationals, Worlds... It's always been about the Jacket ;)

On top of the excitement though I'm in the thick of my hardest semester at uni, and combined with now having to feed and clean up after myself, it's been a killer. At the moment I'm hanging on for dear life to the fact I have 4 weeks of madness left, then 2 and a half weeks of 100% focus on Taiwan. As much as I'd love to be heading over in the fittest and fastest state I could possibly be, realistically uni is getting in the way. Given the stress of this semester I have decided to race for the experience and enjoy every moment regardless of how interrupted my preparation over the next couple of weeks is. Of course I still endeavour to train as much and as well as I can and race my heart out but I'm not going to beat myself up and let myself think about what more I could have done had uni not been so time consuming. After all, it is the world UNI champs, and with only 1 more course required for me to graduate, it would be a waste of all my previous effort to let my marks slide.

More updates to come soon but for now I’m off to bed to catch up on some much needed sleep. :)

Gillian