Category Archives: Swimming

A bit of an odd day at the pool today, as there was no-one else in the fast lane for the entire session. Sticking with the same plan as for the rest of the week my 50m reps were again … Continue reading →

I don’t know why, but today was an unexpectedly good day. I wasn’t planning on pushing things, but most of my 50m reps were 43s, with a couple of 42s and three or four 44s towards the end of the … Continue reading →

I’m going to stick with the 90s interval for this week and see how things go, probably moving back to the 85s interval next week. Today my 50m reps were almost all 44s, with one 45 and one 43. I … Continue reading →

Final swim of the week and another small improvement, with mostly 45s 50m reps and mostly 18s 25m reps. I can be happy with that progress over the week, even if it’s taking somewhat longer for a full recovery than … Continue reading →

Another small improvement today — I’m up to 46s for the 50m reps, though still working off the 90s interval. My 25m reps were a mix of 18s and 19s too. I can live with that for the time being.

Today was a little easier than yesterday though I still didn’t push things too hard, probably averaging around 48 seconds for my 50m reps. I was very tired afterwards though. Probably just as well that tomorrow is a rest day…

I finished my course of antibiotics today and I’ve been itching to go for a swim, so feeling much better I hurried off to the pool. That’s when I found out just how well I wasn’t 🙂 Bearing in mind … Continue reading →

Writing some time after the event, this isn’t a session I can remember too well thanks to what’s happened since. Hopefully that will be a one-off.

Something of a nondescript session today. I wonder if I’m getting to the stage where I’m not going to get any faster for the time being.