Swimming

cracking blog by a nice lady i found on twitter (via darren hayman).

http://swimmingroundlondon.blogspot.com/

edit: good luck sheathy!

My goal for 2012 in sept 11 was to do a 10k.

My goal in Jan 12 was to swim a faster time for the 5k......

My goal in March 12 is to swim the 5k !

After that, we'll see ! :)

i want to do a 10 k this year too. got any particular ones in mind?

cracking blog by a nice lady i found on twitter (via darren hayman).

http://swimmingroundlondon.blogspot.com/

edit: good luck sheathy!

Thanks!

Want that cake on her blog!

she's dead nice too. had a good little chat with her on twitter the other night.

darren hayman's planning some mad lido based musical project later this year. i've sent him a couple of nuggets of swimming pool based musical bobbins myself. not sure if he'll use them. probably not.

http://www.feelforthewater.com/2012/03/overgliding-inefficiency-and.html

2.5k BACK ?!!

Be careful dude.

No, I just got back when I posted.
It was all crawl.

Today I felt shit. No swim= not a happy bunny.
Can't swim tmw even if I wanted to- fresh muscle biopsy.

7.30am this morning ! Had a lovely sleep so snuck out the house early....

500 fc
250 back

2x250 fc @ 80%
5x50 fc @ 90%
5x50 fc @ 100% 89%!

300 back
3x250 fc (25 hard,25 easy,50 hard,25 easy,75 hard,50 easy)
500 pull

150 back
50 kick
150 back
50 kick

3700m That'll do pig :)

i want to do a 10 k this year too. got any particular ones in mind?

I was thinking about the OSS Dart, but it's the 22nd sept this year, which i think is too late.

Theres a 10k at the end of May at Dorney, but thats too soon.............. there is one in cornwall, actually where i spent many days in the summer growing up.... theres a 1,3 and 10k, beginning of sept.... but weather will affect this one so......... just see how things go once i get back outside i spose....
http://www.festivalofsport.net/core-sports/open-water-swims.aspx

Nick Nack youre training sessions are making my penis feel smaller than it is after a swim in the sea.

shit day outside its time toget back into the sauna and swim now.

Nick Nack youre training sessions are making my penis feel smaller than it is after a swim in the sea.

shit day outside its time toget back into the sauna and swim now.

It's all relative though isnt it ? I'm not a fast swimmer, and i dont particulary like even trying to sprint, i prefer steady :)

My 5k averages 90 minutes. I would like to make it 80-something.....

Endurance is more important to me, depends what you want from it, doesnt it ?
Thanks for the compliment though.... I think.... ;)

No, I just got back when I posted.
It was all crawl.

Today I felt shit. No swim= not a happy bunny.
Can't swim tmw even if I wanted to- fresh muscle biopsy.

You could still go to the pool, and do drills to keep your feel for the water.

Kicks, front, back, breast, fly
one arm fly
one arm drills fc, with kickboard

practise fly kick verically in the deep end, like treading water with just fly kick, its hard.
Go to the pool and play, no strain on that shoulder though !

Currently recovering from a leg biopsy so no pool till that heals a little bit more.
5k in 90 mins? That's pretty damn good!
Been running and at the gym rebuilding the muscles with theraband.
Should be fine when I get back in the pool on Tuesday.

This evening;

1500 fc
500 fc
300 back
500 pull
200 fly drills with fins
50 fly fins
750 fc
150 back
50 kick
150 back
4150m

[rant]

Threw my toys out pram at club last night, I'm fed up of swimmers with something to prove who try and smash the warm-up / drills then go off at sprint pace for an endurance main set and fade quickly from there.

I ended up doing multiple 75fc 25 breast reps instead of 100fc's after giving folks a 25m headstart on each rep. Didn't really want to go ahead as that'd just allow them to draft and feel like they were still swimming strong, coach eventually put me at the front despite my sulking.

Might just move up a lane and hang on for grim death, wish there was a happy medium though. [/rant]

Fuck em.just train when you want.testosterone overloads are so boring.

absolutely, I cannot do club sessions any more for more or less that exact reason.

It's the same with running or riding.
You know what it was.
You can come on here and give it all that yadda yadda but if you didn't train hard or do what it was you're only lying to yourself

same reason I quit my masters club. I was getting nothing out of the lane i was in and couldn't hack it in the next one up. tried it and was close to passing out/throwing up trying to keep pace. maybe i should have stuck it out but it didn't feel safe pushing that hard. it's no fun when it's like that.

cocked up my own personal session tonight, got tempted into trying to keep up with a girl who was a fair bit faster than me for the first half hour and faded badly. got out after 45 mins. feeling like my stroke had been all over the shop too.

meh.

It's the same with running or riding.
You know what it was.
You can come on here and give it all that yadda yadda but if you didn't train hard or do what it was you're only lying to yourself

Who's that aimed at ?

Last night's session;

1500 - fc (23 mins)
300 - back
5x50 @ 100%
5x50 @ 90%

500 - pull (on 7/8 mins)
150 - back
100 - kick
200 - back

200 - fc/drills swimdown

3450m. Really happy with last nights swim, these times are good for me. :)

Who's that aimed at ?

No one in particular.read the running thread and the odd post might raise an eyebrow

No one in particular.read the running thread and the odd post might raise an eyebrow

Ahhhhhhhh.

ahhhhhhhh what? which posts? i are confuse.

in other news. my kiefer swedish soft seal goggles are rubs and leak constantly.

linky?

i think i got that swimsmooth overgliding thing from th elats page stuck in my head last time i went swimming and tied myself in knots (not literally) trying to eliminate any dead spots in my stroke.

i think i need to get someone to film me.