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I hard the pool to myself at the start of today’s session. I was expecting a tough set, having dropped down from a target time of 55s a week ago to 52s today: 400m f/c warm-up 24 x 50m f/c, … Continue reading →

It was all a bit of a rush to get to the pool today as we had a visit from a structural engineer to assess the barn we’re planning to convert to a holiday cottage that didn’t leave much time … Continue reading →

A new target today: 400m f/c warm-up 24 x 50m f/c, target 54s, turnaround 75s 200m swim down One second faster than the set I completed on Thursday last week. I wasn’t feeling great when I got to the pool … Continue reading →

So, back to the stopwatch today, working on the following set: 400m f/c warm-up 24 x 50m f/c, target 55s, turnaround 75s 200m swim down I felt quite tired during the warm-up so I wasn’t sure how it would go, … Continue reading →

I don’t usually swim on Wednesdays, but having missed Monday I decided I’d go the pool, especially as I must have slept awkwardly and had woken up with a pounding headache thanks to the muscles in my back and neck … Continue reading →

Unlike the last couple of weeks when it has been quite busy, I arrived at the pool today to find no-one lane-swimming and it remained that way for most of my session. I have to admit that I wasn’t really … Continue reading →

I arrived at the pool slightly early today to find it already empty. Normally there’s a school session, but apparently the last one hadn’t turned up so I started ten minutes early with the pool to myself. I did have … Continue reading →

Feels like I’ve been swimming this set for a long time, now. Hopefully improvements will continue and I can kill it off and move on soon. It was much quieter at the pool today so much easier to swim, though … Continue reading →

The pool was quite busy today. I had to persuade a couple of pensioners that they’d really be better off the “slow” lane instead of trying to share the only other lane available with myself and another swimmer going about … Continue reading →

I was back at the pool today with some hope of completing my current set. It soon became painfully obvious however that it just wasn’t going to happen. Right from the start I was struggling. No idea why. I was … Continue reading →