Category Archives: Swimming

Same story at the pool today, but I was a little faster at least. There’s probably not much else to say. (50m) 43.24, 44.63, 43.71, 44.18, 45.17, 43.58, 44.19, 44.39, 44.21, 46.83, 44.82, 44.64, 45.29, 45.07, skip, 43.08, 44.26, skip, … Continue reading →

Still no progress with the pool. It’s as warm as it was last week 🙁 Times are predictably poor, and I really felt as though I was slogging my guts out to go that fast. Even after I finished swimming, … Continue reading →

It could be time to take the rubber ducks and bubble bath to the pool 🙂 Another warm day, another slog through the set, though mostly it wasn’t quite as bad as yesterday speed-wise, though I had to skip a … Continue reading →

No improvement in the pool temperature yet, and another slog through the session just trying to do the reps somehow. It wasn’t pleasant, and my pace was well off what I was swimming only a few days ago. Now, of … Continue reading →

Another with a very warm pool. No improvement from yesterday at all. Just another slog through the set at a relatively slow pace 🙁

All is not well at the sports centre. Today the pool was far warmer than usual — 31°C according to the lifeguards. That was way too hot to swim hard and all of us in the fast lane struggled to … Continue reading →

I wrote that yesterday’s session felt quite good though I had no concrete way to judge as my stopwatch, err, stopped. Permanently. Fortunately I have a spare (a spare spare in fact, as my son was using my first spare) … Continue reading →

For whatever reason it was relatively quiet at the pool today. Irritatingly though my Sportcount “Yellow” stopwatch decided to die on me. It was working fine on Tuesday when I last used it. I think water must have found a … Continue reading →

The fast lane got a bit hairy today. When we arrived there was already a dad and his two daughters using it, occasionally his son too, the two of us and another lady who arrived a few minutes late. The … Continue reading →