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Category Archives: Swimming
Swimming, 6th February 2017
First full week back after the training course and I thought I’d get back into it with a Swimfit session. This ended up being: 8 lengths front crawl 2 lengths backstroke 2 lengths breaststroke Rest 1 minute 8 x 1 … Continue reading
County Champs start tomorrow
Well, they’ve been taking place for the last couple of weekends in fact, but tomorrow is our first day. Somerset decided to run all events (other than the 800m and 1500m freestyle) both long course and short course this year. … Continue reading
Swimming, 3rd February 2017
Course all done, things can get back to normal now. And first session of the month. I’ll restart the Swimfit sessions next week, but for today I decided I’d just do front crawl and some turn practice. Total distance for … Continue reading
Swimming, 30th January 2017
First session for a week because of the training course. Just swam 2.5km front crawl to keep my hand in. Total distance for January: 32,200m Total distance for this year: 32,200m
And relax…
I’m done. Well, sort of. The face-to-face sessions of my Swimming Coach qualification are now complete, though I still have coursework to complete and session planning and delivery to do at my own club that must be submitted for assessment … Continue reading
Ok, so that’s not quite going to plan…
It was my plan to spend a little time writing up how I was finding the Swimming Coach course. As it turns out I’ve had little free time to that. Adding the travelling time on top of the eight hours … Continue reading
I think I’m all set
About as organised as I’m ever likely to get, I think I’m all set to trog off up to Bristol tomorrow for the first day of my Swimming Coach (what was the Level 2 Coach) course. Looks like it’s going … Continue reading
Swimming, 23rd January 2017
Another Swimfit session today: 6 x 1 length backstroke, 1 length breaststroke, 1 length front crawl, easy pace. One minute rest 6 x 1 length front crawl, average pace, 20 seconds rest 20 lengths quick front crawl Rest until breathing … Continue reading
Swimming, 20th January 2017
Unlike yesterday, a quiet session in the pool again for my third Swimfit session. In the end I did: 5 x one length front crawl, one length backstroke, easy pace One minute rest 6 x one length breaststroke, medium pace, … Continue reading
Swimming, 19th January 2017
Very busy in the pool today making it very difficult to swim lengths, but I managed 4 x 500m front crawl and then another 10 x 50m practising turns at the deep end. Control of breathing is starting to get … Continue reading