Swim

Immediately after getting back from this afternoon’s ride, I took Daughter to her swimming lesson. While she was doing her stuff, I tried to swim a few easy lengths. I have two indicators that my front crawl technique must finally be getting somewhere: Trying to go slow, I was at a constant 30 seconds per 25m...
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This morning was just beautiful when I was out running with Shana - clear blue sky, sun just over the horizon, the tide high & sea flat. In fact, the sea looked rather too good. Too tempting. As we ran past the harbour, I could see that the recent calm weather had really done wonders...
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. . . lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire,—why, it appears...
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It was the  . . . uh . . . usual race day wake up for me. How cool is that? I’v now got the experience to have ‘usual’ wake-ups. I don’t mean that they’re like the mornings where the alarm clock goes off and it’s time to get up for work / training / get...
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2008? Already? Yep. My goals for next year represent quite a serious shift up the ladder, so I’m going to have to do some real training. Getting enough sleep, having an actual plan, and periodisation. Stuff like that. At the moment, I’m looking at three triathlons - Stratford Sprint (400m swim, 23k bike, 5k run) as...
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This evening I was supposed to be going to the NE31’s swim session. But that’s always a tough session, and after only a couple of 100m repeats on Friday, my shoulder was feeling a bit rough on Saturday (kinda aching all the way from shoulder to elbow), and I’m racing again this weekend, so...
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Nothing much to say - went to the pool on Friday afternoon for my weekly swim with Daughter. While she was playing, I did get a few lengths in, but although it’s now pain free, my shoulder did not feel right . . . and in fact, my left arm was quite sore on...
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For me, this has been one of the big ones this year. To graduate up from pool-based triathlons to open-water events. If I want to go any further with triathlon, then getting into outdoor water is an absolute must, and something I’ve worked really hard at this year. So completing this event was a big...
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Actually, I don’t suffer from depression. Not real depression - just the regular kind where sometimes things get on top of me, and I end up a little down. But Thursday’s swim with the NE31 Tri club wasn’t much fun at all. I’d almost ducked out of it on the way there - my shoulder...
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Actually, the title of this post is just to throw Von SmallHaussen off the scent . . . The real title should be “Race Practice”. I was working from home today, systemising a firm’s quotation process - currently it’s about 4-8 hours of black art, which I’m turning into 4-8 minutes of filling in the...
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