Training continued this week in spite of the weather, a snowy run through the local town promoted a lovely young girl to pause from her snow sledging and switch to verbal sledging with calls to slip over- like I said - lovely!
Monday evenings involve the weekly drowning session that is masters swimming, which always leave me questioning which sadist created the butterfly stroke and then who is the chap who writes it into the weekly training schedule. I received swim textbook (yes I am a geek) for Xmas and have been trying to work on a few aspects namely breathing, and have quickly discovered I suck at any suggested methods used to increase exhalation underwater. One method in particular involves something called sink downs, where you tread water in the deep end and then exhale to sink to the bottom of the pool. However I discovered that I exhale out of my mouth causing bubbles to go up my nose, prompting much coughing spluttering! I like to think the lifeguard gave me at least one sympathetic\worried look!
I also received a Garmin swim watch (super geek) to help with swim training, I also find it impossible to keep count of lengths. The watch is useful in it tells you pretty accurately about your stroke which when you apply my stats to the graphs in the textbooks lets me know just how bad I am!
In a bid to help improve fitness and swimming technique I have also started going to the second masters session of the week for a steady/relaxing swim on a Friday evening. The aim of this is for me is purely easy before a weekend of a hockey game and a long run, however the other chaps didn't get the memo when hitting the reps hard in the adjacent lane. Not very morale boosting, although I'm convinced that tumble turns should be banned unless everyone can do them!
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