Madelyn Moore is promising to enjoy the experience of competing for Bermuda once again.

Moore is the only member of Bermuda’s swimming squad at the Central American and Caribbean Games who combines a full-time job with competing at elite level.

A member of the Bermuda Police Service emergency response team, Moore was unsure if she would continue putting herself through the rigours and pressures of training while navigating late night and early-morning shifts.

While any form of social life has bitten the dust after she made the decision to see if she could carry on reaching the higher echelons of her sport, Moore seems more content than at any point in the past few years.

“I was actually just talking to my mom on the phone before I flew to Dominican Republic and she was just saying how nice it was to see me happy doing what I’m doing, which puts them at ease,” Moore said.

“If I’m not having fun doing what I’m doing, then what’s the point? That’s the perspective I'm taking now. I’m at the stage where swimming and my results are not going to make or break my life, so let’s enjoy it.

“When I’m at home and in my work, swimming balance of life, I truly have no time to do anything. From May until July, I saw some friends twice in all that time.

“I really have no time for anything else, so if I won a medal while at this Games it would just show that all the hard work that I’ve been putting in is paying off, which would be really, really exciting.”

Moore will be busy at the Games, swimming in the 50 and 100 metres freestyle, the 50 metres backstroke and the 50 metres butterfly, but she is not willing to nominate her best event.

“I’m not counting anything in or out at these meets and sometimes you just don’t know what is going to show up on what day, so I’m definitely not counting anything out.

“But I’m feeling very relaxed. A lot of our training is race practice, so we're suiting up and gearing up to be racing. I really have been getting more excited every day for the last few months.

“I will be nervous but people can mistake nerves for not being excited. I’m just trying to get excited about what I’m doing, which is refreshing, so I’m going to keep with that trajectory.”

Moore is thankful for the opportunity to race for Bermuda again and says it would be a dream to pick up a medal.

“It’s been a little bit of time now since I represented Bermuda at an international games,” Moore said.

“I’ve been out training in Los Angeles and been having a really good time. I'm just really trying to have fun and I’m definitely accomplishing that.

“I’m just trying not to put an insane amount of pressure on myself because I feel as athletes we do that all the time anyway, so I’m trying to take the opposite approach and go out there to have fun.

“I want to see the people I’ve been swimming with in the region that I've not seen in years.

“For the first time in a while I’m enjoying something that I’ve been training to do since I was 10 years old. Everybody says that a happy swimmer is a fast swimmer, so let's hope that rings true.”