Swim

This evening, while Daughter was having her swimming lesson, I got into the ‘fast’ lane of the pool, to notch up 700m as part of my Hartlepool preparation. ‘Fast’ is in inverted commas, because usually at 5pm on a Friday, it has a fair cross-section of the slowest swimmers in the world in it. I...
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So last week when I went for my Wednesday morning run, I got to the gates of the Tyne’s North Pier, and found ‘em still locked at ten to eight in the morning. This meant that instead of me rambling on for 80 seconds, you got the rare treat of the video of the...
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So I went for a short swim this evening. Just 300m. Hardly worth a blog posting, or even a log book entry. Except this is the place where I went for the swim. The satellite image shows the tide out - high tide tonight was at 18:30, just before I got wet. So I was in...
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 . . . already mentioned in the previous post about the weekend’s party. However the highlight is that there was more work on stroke count, with the challenge to hold within 3 strokes of our best over 50m intervals, and then to take one stroke off our best for 25m. So I ended up...
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After Friday’s aborted bike ride, I took Daughter to her swimming lesson after school. My plan, while she was busy being top-of-the-class (so gratifying for a Competitive Dad), I planned to roll my way up and down the pool for 1000m or so. But somehow, the drive just wasn’t in me. Maybe I was still...
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Go for a swim. For some reason I got my own personal raincloud following me around today, and by the evening, I just wanted to slouch in front of the TV and have a few beers. But tonight’s Thursday Night. Which means a swim session with the NE31 Tri club. And just as I’d resigned...
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While Daughter was having her Swim Time lesson this evening, I made use of my ‘free time’ in the pool to swim up and down in the roped off lane. The pool we go to always has a roped of lane, which is wide enough for two-way traffic. Outside the hours that children are allowed...
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I felt tired today, but having now sent off my entry to the Hartlepool tri, couldn’t not go to a swim session. I’m still over-rotating to breathe, but the rest seems to be getting there. Maybe it’s time to take the camera to the pool again to film my progress . . . Workout: Type: Swim Date:...
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I’m getting the feeling that I might be about to be moved up out of the ‘learners’ lane . . . some time in the next few weeks / months anyway! In last night’s session, Peter the coach had us working on 50m repeats, then 100’s, and finally 150’s, and everything seemed to go...
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Now here’s a phrase you don’t hear spoken in excited “oooh I’m looking forward to this” tones too often: I’m gonna swim in Hartlepool marina! On my list of goals for this year is to complete a triathlon involving an open water swim. It doesn’t say how long the swim should be (clever, eh?), just that...
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