Swim

I spent the morning in a meeting where people were discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and the finer details of Kafka’s novels as an idealised template for how to run an efficient organisation. Or something like that, anyway - I might not have been paying that much...
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To fit in my extra swimming session each week, I’m doing it on Thursday mornings. The thing is, Thursday is also a day in my schedule for cycling. So yesterday was a ride into work, a short pool session, a day at the office and then riding home. It was good fun, apart from finding...
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Strangely enough, I didn’t have time to do a swim with a 4500m main set . . . Workout: Type: Swim Date: 03/18/2010 Time: 09:02:05 Total Time: 00:16:00.00 Calories: 117 Distance: 692.02 m Average Pace: 2:17.24/100m
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There’s this strange thing with coaches who don’t specialise in working with multi-sport athletes. They assume that we have all the time in the world, and that life isn’t a constant battle against the schedule, and that their particular sport is the one that we think we need to dedicate most every minute of...
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Bit of a "Meh!" kind of a swim. Couldn’t seem to find my rhythm, so I got out after a mile. Workout: Type: Swim Date: 03/15/2010 Total Time: 00:35:00.00 Calories: 256 Distance: 1,463.04 m Average Pace: 2:23.39/100m
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Just because it was my birthday last week, it didn’t mean that I got to take a day off training! Although for reasons of common decency, I did keep my trunks on. Workout: Type: Swim Date: 03/10/2010 Total Time: 00:40:00.00 Calories: 292 Distance: 1,600 m Average Pace: 2:30.13/100m
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Nothing much to say - just SO tired. Actually, I do have something to say - my swimming must be improving, because I was dramatically under-shooting my pace target, and had to work hard to slow down . That is a very new experience for me. Workout: Type: Swim Date: 03/08/2010 Time: 12:35:01 Total Time: 00:50:00.00 Calories: 487 Distance: 2,300 m Average Pace: 2:10.81/100m
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I had a session with a new swimming coach yesterday morning. She’s really good at giving negative feedback - stuff you need to be told, yet delivered in a way that doesn’t pop your bubble completely. That’s the good news. The bad news is that I’m now looking at three pool sessions a week, plus a...
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The biggest race I’ve ever done is a half Ironman - two years ago. Getting ready for this was like climbing a mountain, and I was astonished at the view from the top. The full Ironman looks another order of magnitude bigger, and it’s easy to get freaked out by the size of the challenge....
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Turns out that I’m even more rubbish at swimming than I’d thought - the pool at Ashington Leisure centre is so old that it’s measurements are imperial. This includes the pool length, which is 25 yards, not 25 metres. Good thing I found this out now - otherwise I could have ended up training...
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