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Category Archives: Swimming
Swimming, 18th January 2017
A shorter session today and I got some “toys” out too: 10 lengths front crawl One minute rest 4 x 1 length front crawl kick, 20 seconds rest 4 x 1 length front crawl pull, 20 seconds rest 4 x … Continue reading
Swimming, 17th January 2017
A very simple swim today: 4 x 500m front crawl, followed by another 500m practising front crawl turns at the deep end of the pool. I can’t do them at the shallow end yet because I don’t have very good … Continue reading
Swimming, 16th January 2017
So far this month I’ve just been swimming front crawl each weekday, generally up to 2.5km each session if time allows. Thus far I’ve clocked up 18,100m so far this year. From this week however I’ve decided to alternate between … Continue reading
Becoming a swimming coach
Last September I got myself on one of the last “Level 1” Coach courses before the ASA stopped them running to revamp all the swimming coach courses. The course was partially online (most of the Health and Safety and Safeguarding … Continue reading
Learning to swim
Well, sort of… I was taught to swim at primary school, but mostly in a “learn to survive if you fall in the canal” kind of way. If you could stay afloat and propel yourself around the pool that was … Continue reading