Category Archives: Swimming

Grump! Not a good start to the week. Because of other commitments I was very late to the pool leaving me only time to do the 50m set, and that wasn’t very good at all. I think perhaps I just … Continue reading →

Last swim of the week again, and obviously it brought out something good in me. My 50s weren’t bad at all and the 25s were the fastest I’ve done since I got the new stopwatch (again), though I did miss … Continue reading →

Failed to take the times off my stopwatch again today. Doh! Unlike two days ago however, they were nothing special 🙁

Now today was just so much better 😀 I don’t understand at the moment why there can be so much variation between days, but today was the fastest I’ve ever done the 50m reps. Not by much, I’ll admit — … Continue reading →

I struggled again today 🙁 The water still doesn’t feel the right temperature. I’m still very hot when I leave the sports centre which didn’t used to be the case. There’s nothing much to do but wait though. And I … Continue reading →

Last swim of the week. Only three this week because the timetable has been changing too much 🙁 It didn’t feel good though. The lane was quite busy and I felt I was struggling to find a rhythm as a … Continue reading →

Whilst the lifeguards told me the water was still at 30.2°C today, it definitely felt cooler in the pool than it has done for the last two weeks which was a huge relief. It really showed, too. My 50m times … Continue reading →

At last the pool is a little cooler. Not much, certainly, and the lifeguard was a little coy about the actual temperature when I asked, but whilst it didn’t feel as though it was back to normal, it did at … Continue reading →

Final session of the week! No improvement in the water temperature, but the manager was at the reception desk when I came in so I discussed it with him. It turns out that some work has been done on the … Continue reading →

Another warm one 🙁 There was a bit of a strange group in the fast lane today, too. A couple of girls who weren’t even in their teens, another girl who might have been late teens, and someone I took … Continue reading →