Monthly Archives: July 2017

A very enjoyable swim today. Into the water and I was off on a 1,500m swim straight away. Now I can do that in under 30 minutes I really need to start looking at getting the tumble turns in. I … Continue reading →

Something of a mix-up at the pool today as they’d changed the time of the assessments for the life guard training they’ve been doing this week, but neglected to tell anyone or update the website. We were eventually got it … Continue reading →

A repeat of yesterday, but sadly in a cramped lane with too great a variation in swimmer speeds, making it quite difficult to build a rhythm 🙁 Total distance for the month: 53,500m Total distance for this year: 305,600m Distance … Continue reading →

Beat the lifeguard trainees into the pool today and had most of my swimming done before they arrived. Really enjoyed the session, too. So much that having reached 3km of front crawl, kick and bilateral breathing practice I did a … Continue reading →

Even more changes today as half the pool was taking up by people doing their NPLQ lifeguard training, so it was a bit cramped having to share the test with parents taking their children for a splash around. Still managed … Continue reading →

Complete change of arrangements for the next couple of months as the pool has switched to the school holidays timetable. Fortunately for most of my session it was pretty empty, only getting busy quite near the end. It was fun, … Continue reading →

Fridays are usually shorter sessions and I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do, but after 20 lengths warming up one of the swimming club parents turned up to do some training on 50s, so I decided to … Continue reading →

Pretty much a re-run of yesterday. Same sort of session, same distance covered 🙂 Total distance for the month: 39,400m Total distance for this year: 291,500m Distance compared to annual target: 8,900m ahead