At the moment we are based at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. The Olympic Australian Women's Eight are in a hard training block of eight weeks before we depart for the World Cup tour in Europe.
We are three weeks into the training block. So far we have been through some of the hardest training weeks of the year. They have been consisting of over 30 hours of training per week. Last week, was the hardest so far. It included over 140km of rowing (approx 18 hours), 4.5 hours in the gym lifting weight, 5 hours on the bike and a further 3.5 hours in the gym doing interval training. However, as the first hard week of a three week block, the start of this week hasn't been easy either.
It is safe to say that we are all sleeping well at night, trying to squeeze in as much sleep as possible before the 5:30am start the next morning.
