Author Archives: james

Little bit of switcharound today, in that once I got into the pool I just kept going for a while. Ended up doing 1000m, 2 x 250m, 500m, 6 x 50m and 2 x 100m, all front crawl. Total distance … Continue reading →

A repeat of yesterday’s session, again to keep racking up the distance. Just over 15km to go… Total distance for the month: 24,100m Total distance for this year: 484,300m Distance compared to annual target: 45,600m ahead

Tempted as I am to carry on with USRPT work, I really want to make my target of half a million metres this year, so today I just did a front crawl set as 8 x 250m, 6 x 50m, … Continue reading →

Work delayed getting to the pool today so I was somewhat late getting into the water. I just ploughed on with 8 x 250m front crawl which I finished just as the session was ending. Total distance for the month: … Continue reading →

I was delayed getting into the pool today because I bumped into one of my swimmers and her mum in the reception area and had a chat with them first. Once I’d made it into the water I thought I’d … Continue reading →

Strange day at the pool today. I’d done a single 250 or somewhere near that with the pool pretty much to myself when two other people got in and started banging out the lengths at around the same speed as … Continue reading →

Work has been busy this week so due to that and still feeling a little tired after Monday night’s session I went for an easy 2,200m front crawl as 8 x 250m and 2 x 100m and called it a … Continue reading →

Tri session today. The set was: 8 lengths swim 6 x 2 lengths maintaining stroke count, 30 seconds rest 3 x 12 lengths, 60 seconds rest 6 x 1 length catchup, 15 seconds rest 8 lengths swim down Having spent … Continue reading →

I ended up chatting to one of our club swimmers who was in the school session immediately before the public one, and then to his dad who was helping out, so got into the pool a little late. For that … Continue reading →