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At last a slightly better day, though I’m still struggling with my sleep.

My 50m reps today were almost all 43s, with a couple of 42s, and my 25m reps were all in the 18s. I can cope with that, but I want it to be better 🙂

My struggles continue 🙁 I can’t even blame it on the two teenage girls who opted to swim in the fast lane today as despite being at the slower end of the speed range they had exceptionally good lane discipline and didn’t get in anyone’s way.

I was at least ever so slightly faster than on Tuesday with most of my 50m reps below 44s and all of the 25m reps below 19s, but I’m disappointed not to be able to repeat my success of a week or so back when I was noticeably quicker.

Ok, so yesterday wasn’t great and neither was today, although a minor improvement with more 50m reps below 44s and most of the 25m reps below 19s. I guess I can be happy with that for the time being.

I seem to be struggling to sleep quite a bit these days and it’s definitely having an effect on my swimming, just in terms of finding the energy to swim fast. I’m swimming the same set as previously, but today I had to work very hard to make 44s for the 50m reps and 19s for the 25s.

Let’s hope it’s better tomorrow.

What a difference from yesterday! And despite having someone in the lane who was a bit of a mobile roadblock. Fast enough (just) to be there, but a fair bit slower than the fastest of us and with poor lane discipline 🙁

Anyhow, on my 50m reps I had one 44 second swim early on, but other than that everything was in the 42s and 43s with the exception of four reps which were 41s. I’ve never been that fast before, so to complete four reps at that speed was very pleasing.

It did leave me feeling a little tired for the 25m reps so I wasn’t expecting much there, but everything was below 19 seconds, including five below 18s. The fastest I recall was 17.45s, so I’m even halfway to 16s 😀 And another was only 18.05s, so I was fingertips away from a sixth sub-18s rep.

Getting out of the pool after that lot was quite hard, but it’s a very positive way to go into my weekend 🙂

Today’s session was a bit of a struggle. I didn’t sleep well and it showed when the time came to find a bit of energy for swimming. The session wasn’t awful, just not particularly stunning. Most of the 50m reps were 44s and the 25m reps were mainly in the 19s with the occasional 18s length. Here’s hoping for better tomorrow.

It was a bit of a scrappy session today. Two of us in the fast lane were quite capable of swimming lengths around the twenty second mark, but we were sharing the lane with three others who were around ten seconds slower which makes timing awkward. I did the best I could and found that actually the best I could was much better than I expected, swimming quite a few 42s 50m reps with all the others 43s except for one 44s when I got caught up with other swimmers at the turn. It was hard work though 🙂

Then with the 25m reps I swam two below 18s for the first time ever, and I had another two at 18.06s, so only fingertips short of four sub 18s really. I was very pleased with that. Tomorrow is a rest day, then hopefully I can do something similar on Thursday.