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Yet again work interferes with my swimming and I didn’t get to go yesterday. I didn’t sleep particularly well last night either, so wasn’t sure what to expect today. Unfortunately it was rather disappointing and I struggled through the entire set. Partly that was because I was sharing a lane with someone who I wasn’t confident would be out of the way when I was turning and partly because I was struggling with my goggles which kept misting up, but mostly I think it was just down to me being tired.

I had to cut my 25m set short too, as I needed to be elsewhere.

Never mind. I shall look to improve again next time.

Work interfered earlier this week so I didn’t get to swim on Tuesday.

I didn’t get a great night’s sleep so today felt as though it was going to be a bit of a struggle, but actually on the 50m reps I managed one more rep (failing on rep fifteen) than earlier in the week, and then completed twelve 25m reps. It’s surprising how that happens sometimes, when I’m really not feeling as though I’m at my best.

Still not feeling entirely as bright as I’d like, but never mind. A later swim today because it’s half term and the pool had a “fun” session running at my normal time. Swimming can be fun? Who knew? 😀

Anyhow, things went pretty well for the first part of the set and I managed fourteen reps before my first failure and then swam the set out fairly easily after that. I still did struggle with the 25s though. I’ll keep plugging away at them. Once I get back to where I was with the 50s then hopefully they’ll become a bit easier.

Had to skip yesterday as I was watching my children swim instead, and discussing some arrangements for starting to coach again towards the end of the month. Again I was feeling quite tired and really struggling to find the power in my arms. I made it to twelve 50m reps before failing and failed again before getting to the end of the set. The 25m swims were a bit of a disaster. Under the circumstances I’m not too discouraged.

I didn’t get a very good night’s sleep last night and was feeling really quite tired, but forced myself to swim anyhow. Pleasingly I managed twelve reps at 50m before my only failure. No real improvement on the 25s though.

Same set as last time, but this time I made one more rep of the 50m swims before failing. That’ll do me.

So, after the successes of this week, my new set is:

• 400m f/c warm-up
• 18 x 50m f/c, target time 50s, turnaround 80s
• five minutes rest
• 18 x 25m f/c, target time 20s, turnaround 60s
• 200m swim down

Today I only managed ten reps of 50m before failing and then had a further fail before swimming out the rest of the set. I can live with that. Again, the 25s are still quite hard to keep on the pace and I’m failing out around the ten reps mark.