Monthly Archives: March 2019

I arrived at the pool slightly early today to find it already empty. Normally there’s a school session, but apparently the last one hadn’t turned up so I started ten minutes early with the pool to myself. I did have … Continue reading →

Feels like I’ve been swimming this set for a long time, now. Hopefully improvements will continue and I can kill it off and move on soon. It was much quieter at the pool today so much easier to swim, though … Continue reading →

The pool was quite busy today. I had to persuade a couple of pensioners that they’d really be better off the “slow” lane instead of trying to share the only other lane available with myself and another swimmer going about … Continue reading →

I was back at the pool today with some hope of completing my current set. It soon became painfully obvious however that it just wasn’t going to happen. Right from the start I was struggling. No idea why. I was … Continue reading →

Last swim of the week and I was determined to do one more rep than yesterday. I did manage to do just that, but towards the end things were getting quite ragged. These last few reps are proving quite difficult … Continue reading →

Another repetition of my current set. I felt very sluggish when warming up today. Not that I was particularly tired, but it just felt as though I was swimming through treacle 🙁 It didn’t seem to affect my performance too … Continue reading →

Yet another repeat of the same set I’ve been doing in the last couple of weeks, but things are progressing slowly so I’m not going to get distressed about that. Today I managed twenty reps before failing on twenty-one and … Continue reading →

After the disaster of my last session I was determined to do better today and I’m pleased to report that’s how it went. Not a big improvement on my previous best performance, but an improvement nonetheless. Today I managed nineteen … Continue reading →