Even more changes today as half the pool was taking up by people doing their NPLQ lifeguard training, so it was a bit cramped having to share the test with parents taking their children for a splash around. Still managed 2,900m of front crawl, kick and bilateral breathing practice.
Total distance for the month: 47,100m
Total distance for this year: 299,200m
Distance compared to annual target: 10,600m ahead
Complete change of arrangements for the next couple of months as the pool has switched to the school holidays timetable. Fortunately for most of my session it was pretty empty, only getting busy quite near the end. It was fun, too. So much so that I pushed the distance to 3,200m of front crawl, kick and bilateral breathing practice.
Total distance for the month: 44,200m
Total distance for this year: 296,300m
Distance compared to annual target: 9,700m ahead
Fridays are usually shorter sessions and I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do, but after 20 lengths warming up one of the swimming club parents turned up to do some training on 50s, so I decided to do the same and practice bilateral breathing. I only covered 1,600m as a result, including doing a few lengths of kick at the end, but it’s not been a bad week so I was happy with that.
Total distance for the month: 41,000m
Total distance for this year: 293,900m
Distance compared to annual target: 8,500m ahead
Pretty much a re-run of yesterday. Same sort of session, same distance covered 🙂
Total distance for the month: 39,400m
Total distance for this year: 291,500m
Distance compared to annual target: 8,900m ahead
Arrived late at the pool yet again, but had a little more time to play with today. I still stuck with front crawl and kick however, for a total of 2,700m. Today it felt as though the swimming was starting to become easier again, so perhaps I’m returning to the same form I had before we went on holiday.
Total distance for the month: 36,700m
Total distance for this year: 288,800m
Distance compared to annual target: 8,200m ahead
Got to the pool very late on account of trying to find a better route that avoids the closed road, so I just did 2,200m front crawl and some kick until the session ended.
Total distance for the month: 34,000m
Total distance for this year: 286,100m
Distance compared to annual target: 7,500m ahead
First day back at the usual indoor pool, and a pleasure to swim in cooler water, if quite hard work getting back into the swing of things. To celebrate I added a few hundred metres each of kick and bilateral breathing practice to the usual front crawl and covered 2.8km in total.
The bad news is that a few hundred metres of road on my route to the pool has been completely closed and traffic diverted along a route that probably gets close to an extra twenty miles. The only shorter routes involve lots of single track backroads with limited numbers of passing places. The one I took today doubled my journey time. I’ll have to try something different tomorrow.
Total distance for the month: 31,800m
Total distance for this year: 283,900m
Distance compared to annual target: 7,300m ahead
Last swim in the outdoor pool today. The first 1,000m was very difficult and my arms felt painfully tired, but as the distance increased it all seemed to become easier and at the end I felt as though I could have gone further, but I’d reached the point of not wanting to have to avoid people any more so I stopped at 2.4km.
Total distance for the month: 29,000m
Total distance for this year: 281,100m
Distance compared to annual target: 6,500m ahead
Something definitely seems to have got messed up with my distance against target calculations somewhere. As soon as I have time I’ll go through that.
Still in the outdoor pool, but a bit different today as I was swimming with my daughter, and in the rain! It didn’t help that I was feeling a little tired, so I just did 1,800m in the end.
Total distance for the month: 26,600m
Total distance for this year: 278,700m
Distance compared to annual target: 6,100m ahead
An easier swim, largely because of the number of people to be avoided in the pool. Just 2.1km front crawl today.
Total distance for the month: 24,800m
Total distance for this year: 276,900m
Distance compared to annual target: 6,300m ahead
