Tag Archives: USRPT

Allegedly the boilers at the pool are fixed, though it certainly doesn’t feel like it when you get into the water. Fortunately it’s not too bad after a few lengths. I missed Sunday’s session thanks to the pool being closed … Continue reading →

I don’t know why, but today was just awful 🙁 I even had the fast lane to myself! Regardless, I just felt so tired and there was no power in my arms. One to walk away from and forget 🙁

I was late booking my place in the lane today, but when I did so, less than an hour before it started, there was only one other person booked. I was quite surprised when five people turned up 🙁 Given … Continue reading →

Another awkward day with slower swimmers in the fast lane, though not as bad as yesterday. I did however still have to abandon tumble turns on a number of occasions and that showed in the times. It’s a difficult call. … Continue reading →

It was a bit of a nightmare session today 🙁 I think there were at least seven swimmers including myself in the fast lane, some of them not really going very fast at all and one swimming breaststroke with an … Continue reading →

Sadly I wasn’t surprised when I arrived at the pool today to find that the heating system had broken down again 🙁 The pool temperature had dropped to 27.3°C and was continuing to fall which felt a touch bracing… Nonetheless, … Continue reading →

Another pleasing day at the pool today, at least as far as the 50m reps went. My target time is currently 43s (or perhaps really 42.99s, as I’d count 43s as a fail) and today I managed: 42.93, 43.25, 42.06, … Continue reading →

Well, what a difference a day makes! Somehow today I found it pretty much impossible to swim my 50m set slowly. It wasn’t perfect as the lane was fairly busy and I had a couple of slow reps where I … Continue reading →

Last Sunday was usually busy in the fast lane compared with most. Today I had it to myself 🙂 My body still appears to be adjusting to the shock of dropping my interval time. Performance was better than last time … Continue reading →

I missed out on swimming yesterday as we had an engineer visiting to fix our phone lines (which includes our ADSL internet connection). Largely a waste of time, it would appear, as he left us in no better a situation … Continue reading →