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Triathlon Swim-Meister VI: Another day another lane

03 Saturday Dec 2011

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English: The wake after the ferry to Fanø, Den...

The view when I turn around in the pool.

I ventured into the big boys’ lane today. Well to be fair into a lane. Another first.

With my wife’s friend sharing the same lane there was no excuse to stop. That’s probably the best motivation if you are crap at swimming. Go with a woman.

20 lengths later … sorted. Albeit pull buoy assisted (or is it pool buoy?)

Not bad for a month of swimming in any case. Real zero to hero stuff. OK, perhaps not quite a hero yet. Not even to my biased kids who still think they are better than me.

The tilting bit seems to work.

You’ll be pleased to know that my wife was watching. She’s usually fairly honest and said that I was better than this other guy in the same lane. So there it’s official I was actually better than an adult of roughly the same age. Another first.

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Triathlon Swim-Meister V: Another big splash

25 Friday Nov 2011

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Similar to a view of me gliding through the water

First ever pseudo-lesson today from a mate who can swim. I have lots of them… mates who can swim. One day I aim to be a mate who can swim but, in the meantime, it’s down the pool.

Slow down and breathe was today’s mantra. Of course I know that mantra and most others. I just have a problem doing them.

Still I persevered. This time only doing crawl. I felt I had it on one length and even managed to do 2 lengths. Today’s key was to start the breathe in earlier and stop flailing my legs about…although to me they felt straight. just that they weren’t, at all. To be fair even my 8-year-old had pointed that out to me.

My shoulders are absolutely killing me. So I’ll have to have a break for a while and focus on knackering my knee through cycling and calf through running. Joy.

Next session will be to borrow another mate’s pull buoy thingy.

Sorted.

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Triathlon Swim-meister IV: Watch Out Luv

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

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On the lip of the weir

They wait for me to surface

Yes, well. I’m still basking in my swim-glory tonight. I got out of the pool about 8 hours ago and it hasn’t worn off.

I was NOT the crappest person in the pool today! There was actually someone worse than me. I feel very sorry though as I did gloat a bit.

How could anyone be so bad?

Then, of course, I also realised that all the other 30 or so people in the pool couldn’t probably spot any discernible difference in the quality of stroke between me and this other person.

The session itself:

Equalled the distance record today. But it didn’t go as well. Breathing seemed to have taken a step backwards although I think I managed to do my backstroke length in less arm strokes than before. That’s good isn’t it?

Another ‘fellow swimmer’ had one of those pull-buoys (?) between his legs. I just about managed to do one length for 2 of his (he was just using his arms of course).

Beats sinking I guess.

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Triathlon Swim-meister – Improvement Continues

14 Monday Nov 2011

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Still not me

Well I beat my 8 year old daughter over a length at the weekend. Not that I’m competitive or anything. A win is a win.

I have the 10 year old in my sights but my wife will be a trickier challenge as she can keep going forever with that pesky breast stroke.

I’m now up to a heady 5 lengths of crawl.  (with a bit of a breather after each…actually I alternate with backstroke and big rests).

All my mates still can’t believe I can’t really swim. They kind of assume that I am just learning front crawl but can do breast stroke like ‘everyone’ else. Well I can’t!

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