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And back to the evening tri fitness session, which was along the lines of:

4 x 2 lengths counting strokes

6 x 1 length swimming to halfway before breathing, 10 seconds rest
6 x 1 length sprint, 20 seconds rest
repeat these two

6 lengths pull
8 lengths swim
6 lengths pull

I’ve missed something somewhere, but can’t recall what it was, possibly because I had to shuffle things around. After the first set of sprints I just couldn’t control my breathing properly so I had to do a few lengths just to calm things down and get back on track.

In the end I covered 2,300m in total for the session.

Total distance for the month: 40,900m
Total distance for this year: 405,700m
Distance compared to annual target: 38,800m ahead

Quite a short swim today as the preceeding school session overran into the public session and I just had to make do with what was left of what is already a short session to start with. Not a big deal as I was starting to feel a little tired anyhow. Just managed 1,800m front crawl in the end.

Total distance for the month: 38,600m
Total distance for this year: 403,400m
Distance compared to annual target: 38,500m ahead

Woohoo! Today I passed the 400km mark for the year. Very pleased. A quick check from last year puts me just over 63km ahead of where I was on the same day. Today I did 2km front crawl as 8 x 250m, then worked on fly kick a but more and finished off with some 50m front crawl swims working on the turn, for a total of 2,500m.

Total distance for the month: 36,800m
Total distance for this year: 401,600m
Distance compared to annual target: 38,700m ahead

Pretty much the same as yesterday today. Not very inventive I know, but if I’m going to experiment with drills for coaching I do need to have some idea of how hard they are.

Total distance for the month: 34,300m
Total distance for this year: 399,100m
Distance compared to annual target: 38,200m ahead

Feeling a bit tired from the tri session, so I just kept it simple, as 2km front crawl followed by 500m of experimenting with fly kick drills that I’m going to set for my swimmers later in the week. Turns out that fly kick on one’s side is a bit more tricky than I imagined. Or, at least, the kick bit isn’t, but breathing as well makes it a bit more awkward. I wasn’t doing it with fins though. My swimmers will.

Total distance for the month: 31,800m
Total distance for this year: 396,600m
Distance compared to annual target: 37,700m ahead

Lost track of things a bit at the tri fitness session this evening. As sometimes happens I started swimming and was concentrating on technique and lost track of the lengths. Fortunately the people sharing the lane hadn’t got quite so distracted.

As a result I can’t remember much of the set. The warm-up was eight lengths, swimming a different stroke for the fourth and eighth lengths and there was some single arm front crawl involved, but other than that I’m not sure. All I know is that I covered 2,000m

Total distance for the month: 29,300m
Total distance for this year: 394,100m
Distance compared to annual target: 37,200m ahead

Short session today and we didn’t actually get into the water until five minutes after it had started, so I just focused on doing 8x250m front crawl, putting in a tumble turn at the deep end at the end of the first, fifth and ninth lengths of each 250. Generally it wasn’t too bad, but it’s definitely harder work than just using open turns at the moment.

Total distance for the month: 27,300m
Total distance for this year: 392,100m
Distance compared to annual target: 37,200m ahead

Today I felt slightly more on top of things and not so tired, managing 2km front crawl as 8x250m followed by 6x50m front crawl kick and 200m as 50s working on turns again.

Total distance for the month: 25,300m
Total distance for this year: 390,100m
Distance compared to annual target: 37,200m ahead

Still a bit tired today, but did 2km from the start all bilateral breathing and then 300m as 50s working on setting up the turn, basically working out where I need to breathe, or where I can breathe, such that I can adapt to how I arrive at the “T” to enable the turn to take place smoothly and to get decent distance off the wall on the way out.

Total distance for the month: 22,800m
Total distance for this year: 387,600m
Distance compared to annual target: 36,700m ahead