Tag Archives: training

After the disaster of my last session I was determined to do better today and I’m pleased to report that’s how it went. Not a big improvement on my previous best performance, but an improvement nonetheless. Today I managed nineteen … Continue reading →

I wasn’t feeling great when I went to the pool today. Nothing specific, just not quite right. No idea why. Clearly there was something not right as the session was a complete disaster. I couldn’t even finish the set. Not … Continue reading →

Quite a successful day in the pool today. I repeated my current set and managed to make eighteen reps before failing, two more than yesterday. After that I had no more failures, though the last couple were quite tough. Afterwards … Continue reading →

Much quieter in the pool today, though as I warmed up I felt that it was going to be quite a struggle. Didn’t sleep too well last night and as a result I wasn’t really feeling on the ball for … Continue reading →

It being the first day back at school today, I went to the pool expecting it to be quiet. Within a couple of minutes of me getting into the water it was already far busier than usual. Turns out that … Continue reading →

By contrast with earlier in the week, today I was the only person in the pool when I started swimming, though two or three others did turn up during the course of my session. Odd that it should be so … Continue reading →

Awkward day, today. The pool was very busy and I found it difficult to establish a rhythm early on. My set was the same as yesterday, but because I couldn’t really settle in I even had one failure in the … Continue reading →

Well, I was expecting today would be tough and I wasn’t wrong. Doubtless some of that was down to the pool being very busy (it is half term, after all). I was sharing a lane with two others who were … Continue reading →

Had the pool to myself again today when I started, and there weren’t more than two other swimmers in for my entire session. Again my target was just to do better than last time, and I did indeed managed to … Continue reading →

And another quiet day in the pool. Same set, same idea: just push things a little bit further than I’ve managed before. And it went pretty well. I managed twenty-one reps before failing for the only time on twenty-two, one … Continue reading →