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yet more swimming

yesterday’s target: 750m
yesterday’s achievement: 1000m. I still can’t string more than 25 of those metres together in one go but the recovery time is falling off big time and yesterday I really had the feeling of not being one of the worst swimmers in the pool.
The first 400m is always the hardest. Once I get [...]

tonight’s swimming session

600m. I still can’t chain the freestyle lengths but it takes 600m for me to get half dead now as opposed to 75. So that’s an improvement.
I’m trying to sort out the technique today. I made the bad mistake of reading teh boards.ie swimming forum which was demoralising to say the least. Apparently 25-30seconds for [...]

Saturday’s not alright for..

Today, it seems like half the entire toddler population in Clontarf was at the swimming pool. And the swim club were training in the 50m section of the pool.
Don’t get me wrong. I love that Westwood is basically kid friendly, that you can get family membership and by and large, the kids are generally well [...]