Category Archives: Swimming

I now have to wonder if I may have had some sort of illness, albeit one that wasn’t at all obvious, over the last week or so. Since early last week I’ve been really struggling with my swimming. When I’ve … Continue reading →

Well, let’s hope the last day of the month signals a time for change because I’ve had enough of not swimming as well as I know I can. I think I’ll leave it at that 🙂

Another poor performance today. This is starting to get quite frustrating 🙁

Another day with nothing positive to report 🙁 I don’t know why I’m struggling so much at the moment. Just got to get through it, I guess.

Another difficult day 🙁 I didn’t seem to do any better than two days ago, so sadly that wasn’t a one-off. I’ve been forgetting to grab the times off my stopwatch, too. Must try harder.

Having reduced my rest interval so the overall rep interval for my 50m reps is now 80s, I really struggled today. I’ve no idea why, but I was all over the place, anything up to 3s per rep slower than … Continue reading →

Swimming today was a bit of a mess 🙁 I was a couple of minutes late thanks to an unannounced road closure, but everything started off fine. Then another chap who I’ve not seen before joined the fast lane and … Continue reading →

The fast lane was very busy today with seven people for most of the session and a few times I couldn’t turn or was held up by a slower swimmer. For once though it didn’t really seem to affect me … Continue reading →

Today turned into a bit of a rush for no obvious good reason, but once into the pool it was at least fairly quiet. I felt as though I did fairly well today too, though I ended up having to … Continue reading →

There were only three of us in the fast lane today which was quite pleasant. In fact, for most of the session it was two, as the slowest swimmer decided he’d probably be better off in the medium lane (probably … Continue reading →