Swim

On the second day of our holiday, I did some more multi-tasking. The whole family was going into Montpellier to visit the aquarium. That’s at the end of one of the city’s tram lines . . . and only a few stops up the line is the swimming pool. So while the family were...
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My training’s reached the point where I’ve started to get those weird food cravings. This time, I WON’T be giving in to the temptation to have kippers in porridge, but it did get a little strange tonight. I didn’t have time to finish my supper before heading off to the pool, so I tucked...
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I felt stressed out at work this afternoon, and then noticed that it was almost high tide, and the moon’s pretty full, so it was going to be a high tide. So I went for a swim in the sea. What I didn’t notice was that there was quite a swell, so my swim...
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I missed the NE31 club’s swim session last night, so to make up for it, I went to Tynemouth pool this morning for a longer swim. I set my watch’s countdown timer to 1′13″ to give me a nice easy pace for each 50m (two lengths), and set off aiming for consistency. It kinda worked...
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So for Monday’s swim session,  the NE31 coach, Peter, told us that we were in for an easy session. Uh-oh, that doesn’t sound good at all. Peter has a strange sense of what counts as “easy”, and our worst fears were confirmed when he said we wouldn’t need any training aids. This is usually a...
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With the spring weather here, and three days of spring tides, I just had to do my swim today in the sea. So with high tide at 17:30-ish, I headed down to the harbour in my wetsuit at five. When I swim in the sea, I always time it so that I’m just before...
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It feels like spring here now, and yesterday was a spring tide - high at about 4pm. So I put my wetsuit on, and walked down to the harbour - intending to do a couple of laps for an easy 1000m or so. The thing is that although the sea’s definitely warmer than it...
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Only one question really - what on earth went wrong on Monday? We did lots of sets of 50’s and 100’s tonight, and right the way to the last 100, I was able to hold my goal paces - 1:01 for 50m, and 2:02 for 100m. So how come on Monday I was down...
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I’ve just got back from a really disappointing pool session. And I’m not at all happy. Not happy at all. Grrrrrr! It’s the last Monday of the month, so that means a 400m time trial at the NE31’s swim session. After last Friday’s performance in the pool (2:30 / 100m pace over 1,000m), which was...
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With my parents arriving last night, I missed the NE31 club’s swim session. So I headed off to Tynemouth pool this morning for a short-ish swim. Unlike the club swims though, I did this as a more or less continuous effort. None of that hanging around at the end of the pool chatting &...
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