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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 last week. It might just be the change in rest interval that’s caused it and things will get better as I get used to it, but I guess we’ll find out over the next few weeks.

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 proceeded to swim very slowly. I’d had to pass him at least four times, including once when he bumped into me, and at least one of the other swimmers in the lane was passing him regularly, when a lifeguard came over and suggested to him that he would perhaps be better off in the medium lane. He flat-out denied that anyone was passing him and declined to change lane.

Fortunately for the rest of us he didn’t swim to the end of the session, but by the time he did get out it was a bit late to do much that was useful. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

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 that much and I swam my fastest set of 50m reps ever and was only two hundredths of a second off my fastest 25m average (from yesterday!). I did have to skip one 50m rep though. I was gasping a bit and because a queue of swimmers came through there wasn’t anywhere convenient for me to start on time anyhow.

(50m) 42.19, 41.54, 41.44, 41.41, 41.56, 41.57, 41.56, 43.08, 44.56, 43.28, 42.86, 41.56, 43.09, 41.93, 42.50, skipped, 40.61, 41.73, 43.22, 41.78

(25m) 17.89, no time, 18.50, 19.05, 18.41, 18.68, 18.75, 19.16, 18.52, 18.83

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 skip a couple of 50m reps because I hadn’t recovered enough to even be able to start swimming again. I ran out of time for any more than eight 25m reps, but the first was at least one of my fastest times ever so I can’t be disappointed.

(50m) 43.81, 42.57, 43.59, 42.77, 42.72, 42.45, 43.00, 43.50, 43.80, skipped, 41.31, 42.75, 42.37, 42.63, 42.05, 42.58, 42.63, skipped, 41.75, 42.52

(25m) 17.67, 18.85, 18.82, 18.62, 18.50, 18.86, 18.63, 18.98