I did it.. I went and did an open swim in a wet suit for the first time. It was a warm and sunny day so I had to go for it. I thought I had arrived early only t...

My swim this evening was so-so. I was actually exhausted from the amount of cycling I did at lunch (I got lost) and also generally from training. My muscles wer...

My nose clip never arrived. But I bought another one at Center Parcs and went to try it out today. The good news is that I am no longer in sinus trouble after a...

I'm now sure I'm allergic to chlorine or something else that lives in the pool. Having checked the Internet for my symptoms this is fact. I thought my two days ...

Now I've done a tiny bit of research on swimming I'm changing my training plan. My original plan was to just do lots of swimming but I'm thinking a more structu...

Just a quick one this week, I just had to tell everyone! I've had a really good boost to my swimming recently, some might say a breakthrough. The last few w...

Riding a bike with cleats is a strange feeling, the fact that when attempting to lift your foot off the pedal you actually drive yourself forward as the pedal c...

I have a confession to make. Growing up in Central Europe, I only ever really learned breast stroke and no free style swimming. So I started to get trained o...

I went for a swim last night and stumbled upon Triathlon Club. I stumble frequently when swimming. They wanted to start training in the roped off lane I was usi...

Well I actually managed to do 30 lengths of the pool today, but I did stop at each end and take a small breather, and a long breather sometimes. I daren't try t...

For those of you who haven't seen it here is a short piece I recently wrote for 220 Triathlon magazine with ideas for short (30 minute) swim sessions based arou...

Today was supposed to be a rest day. However, having recruited my daughter, Emma, 10, as my new swimming coach we decided to go to the pool for some lessons. Th...

I went to the local pool today to try and swim. Now, I've seen swimmers and triathletes and they swim front crawl. I can do this for one length of the pool a...

I've done it! I've actually done it! All the hard work and internet reading has paid off. Oh and the trainer, which I'm attempting to get another session whi...

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