Author Archives: james

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 →

Pretty much a straight repeat of two days ago. Did the first 1,500m in under 28 minutes which I think is fairly good going for gliding into the wall and lazy open turns. Adding another 1,500m on top was tough … Continue reading →

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 →