This last week's been a funny old week. Craig (Stockport) got "confused" and thought that the Etwall meet was at the beginning of November (nope it's the end) so he decided to have me do a tapering set. That was okay actually because I've had this dodgy cold in my system, so a little less has been better really. He only worked out, the end of Thursday, that it was at the end of Novemeber! And he's been taking the mickie about the "world's longest taper" since then.

Monday - fighting the kids (Stockport)
Well it's half term week, so I swum with the "general public" (aka kids) on Monday. Actually knew this was going to be the situation, so I just did a tempo-trainer kicking set:

1 x 400 kick (TT = 0.9)
4 x 100 kick (TT = 0.8)
8 x 25 kixk (TT = 0.6)

On this last set I managed a couple of 20s kick lengths (new record).

Tuesday - Swimfit (Stockport)
1 x 400 Warm Up
8 x 50 kick on 1:15 (all 1:00 - 0:55)
12 x 50 free (2 hard, 2 EZ) x 3

Wednesday - Swimfit (Stockport)
1 x 400 Warm Up
6 x 50 U-and-O (FR, EZ, FL, FR, EX, FR, FL)
6 x 25 tethered (odds with resistence, evens being pulled)

Wednesday - Tri (Buxton)
4 x 100 FR 30RI (progressive up to 70% effort)
10 x 125 20RI swum as 25 kick, 50 pull, 50 swim
1 x 600 EZ
4 x 50 fast on 1:30 (29, 30, 31, 32)
1 x 100 EZ

Thursday - Swimfit (Stockport)
1 x 400 Warm Up
... can't remember!! ...
4 x 15 fast from dive
4 x 20 fast from dive
4 x 25 fast from dive
1 x 100 IM "fast" from dive

Friday 0 Swimfit (Stockport)
1 x 400 Warm Up
8 x 50 FL kick (25 back, 25 front)
16 x 50 FL swum 4 on 1:00, 4 on 1:05, 4 on 1:10 and 4 on 1:20

Friday - Swimclub (Buxton)
60 x 25 (odds FR, evens BK)
lots of FL kick (with fins)
... can't remember!! ...
1 x 200 fly (with fins) 2:31 (out in 1:07)

During the tethered swimming on Wednesday, Craig's boss (head coach type) came passed and told Craig that my left hand entry is rubbish. And he's right, basically I over reach with it, so that it actually enters the water almost at full extension. More accurately it does this when I am breathing to my right (not when I am left-side breathing). So I sent some of Wednesday night and the rest of the week trying to do a TI "ear hop" to get my hand entering around the top of my head - this felt a touch grim, because it's a very ingrained habit I've got.