Author Archives: james

Given the coach raising the issue of my lack of bilateral breathing last night I decided I’d spend some time working on that today, so I started with 2km of front crawl changing breathing side after each length. After that … Continue reading →

Well, today was a bit of a monster! In the evening I planned to do the tri fitness session that I’d attempted to go to last week before deciding I was too ill, but I wasn’t sure what to expect … Continue reading →

Another day when my arms felt very tired. I think being ill at the start of the week took more out of me than I realised at the time. I was planning on doing some turn work, but that went … Continue reading →

Was really looking forward to swimming today, but once in the pool my arms just felt so tired that I really couldn’t make much progress and struggled to swim more than 200m at a time. Neither did it help that … Continue reading →

Feeling much better today, I got warmed up and did some kick and then went into a set of 50m front crawl swims with bilateral breathing and tumble turns. Generally it went very well although I messed up a few … Continue reading →

On the recommendation of a friend I had planned to go and watch a tri fitness (swimming) session on Monday eveningto see if I fancied doing it for a bit of a change to my usual swims, but there’s been … Continue reading →

After three long weeks the roadworks are all done and I can go back to my usual route to the pool. I really wasn’t much in the mood when I went today though, but after twenty lengths or so I … Continue reading →

An odd day today. I arrived at the pool with my daughter who had decided that she would like to come for a swim too only to find that the public session had been changed to “adults only” due to … Continue reading →

My arms felt a little heavy after doing my warm-up today so I decided to change things around a bit. Not that I made it that much easier for myself, doing twenty 100m swims practising bilateral breathing. After that I … Continue reading →