active swim

Elastic-man from BillOddy 918 days old

Well not quite. But yesterday we did circuit training in the pool. One lane was doing pull with paddles, one lane vertical kicking, one jumping (me ...

Double or nothing... from BillOddy 946 days old

[ ... ] with Craig's active swim (actually called Swim Fit) sessions, because some time back he asked if I wanted to. And they've been good fun ...

11 days to go a slightly depresses from BillOddy 953 days old

So there's eleven days until my first swimming competition proper. This week in Craig's lot it's supposedly lots of intense stuff, and it is but it's ...

63.8!! from BillOddy 958 days old

Feeling pretty good today, we did our two-weekly "test" swim today with Craig, and whilst I haven't swum that much this last week or so (got dreadful ...

No shiny thing from BillOddy 968 days old

I didn't get to use my new shiny thing today (my Speedo Elite), I think Craig saw it and decided to do something else! So we did some general drill/technique ...

One thing mended, another broken from BillOddy 978 days old

Didn't go swimming with the speedie kids last night, decided to rest my calf and drink wine with my lady instead! And was "damned" later on when my ...

DPS and some hope from BillOddy 980 days old

I hobbled to the pool today with my very knotted calf still a very knotted thing so I didn't over tax myself today. Now it still feels pretty crap ...

Master of the universe(?) from BillOddy 985 days old

No not really. But over the past couple of weeks Gary (Buxton coach) has been encouraging me to look at doing some Masters swimming. So I finally got ...

Video evidence (or I'm not the man I thought I was...) from BillOddy 986 days old

That's what I've learnt this week in the pool. I always thought I had a pretty good idea of what I looked like (mental picture) in the water. Well ...

Weekly round up - Active Swim from BillOddy 993 days old

This week had three swims with Craigs group. Thursday was more technique and Tuesday/Friday was more lactic work. I guess at some point you build up ...