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@willo
i'm struggling to do 400m of crawl in one go - tho have steadily improved since I started 3 weeks ago. Need to be able to do a comfortable 750m by June and leave enough in the tank to do the bike and run legs. I find my biggest issue is with breathing (although it is slowly improving). Hopefully I will have a eureka moment in a couple of months or so and it will all come together.
Was doing lengths at Putney on Sunday morning in the "fast" lane and holding my own for a bit. Then this 30 (at a guess) yo lady appeared - had to move over to medium pretty pronto. Never seen anything so fluid or fast in the water ever; the only time i have ever seen a swimmer create a "bow" wave other than on the telly.