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Bit of a change for today. I went to a SwimFit session at one of the local pools. It was quite a tough session, mostly drills and kick, so I didn’t cover much distance — only 1,200m. Not sure I’m … Continue reading →

Back to the same practice for bilateral breathing — breathe to the left on “odd” lengths and to the right on “even”, for 2,000m. I also tried to bear in mind the observations of the coach from Monday night that … Continue reading →

I went to the tri fitness swimming session in the 33.3m pool again today, but instead of my normal swim session rather than in addition to it. It was quite a different set to last week: 6 lengths swim 6 … Continue reading →

And the same thing once again, but perhaps today it was a little easier. And my session today took me up to 15.1km, which is certainly the furthest I’ve ever done just swimming on weekdays. Total distance for the month: … Continue reading →

A repeat of yesterday, but with more tired arms 🙂 I’m just going to keep plugging away at this bilateral breathing until it gets easier, though I might try to find ways to make it a bit more interesting doing … Continue reading →

Pretty much the same as yesterday’s session, practising bilateral breathing again. 2km from the off breathing to the left on odd lengths and the right on even lengths, then 8x50m kick and 4x50m full bilateral breathing with a tumble turn. … Continue reading →

Given the coach raising the issue of my lack of bilateral breathing last night I decided I’d spend some time working on that today, so I started with 2km of front crawl changing breathing side after each length. After that … Continue reading →

Well, today was a bit of a monster! In the evening I planned to do the tri fitness session that I’d attempted to go to last week before deciding I was too ill, but I wasn’t sure what to expect … Continue reading →

Another day when my arms felt very tired. I think being ill at the start of the week took more out of me than I realised at the time. I was planning on doing some turn work, but that went … Continue reading →

Was really looking forward to swimming today, but once in the pool my arms just felt so tired that I really couldn’t make much progress and struggled to swim more than 200m at a time. Neither did it help that … Continue reading →