Splashing with Spans!
Discipline: Swimming
Distance: Who Cares!
That well known international runner and famous duathlete, Spans, had kindly agreed to give me some swimming tips. I was exhausted after a touch week at work, and getting across town was a bliddy nightmare, but we met up at the agreed time of 4:45 in Isleworth. It's a lovely pool - would go there more often if it wasn't it such an icky place! Anyhow - it was near Spans, and she has the expertise!
We started off with a few lengths so that Spans could see my "style", and she observed that my legs "snaked" behind me, which was a comment I'd heard before. My legs also splayed out into a V shape, which would slow me down, and I was rolling too much, plus m,y arms went too deep, and I buried my head underwater. In short, I was sh1te. Spans was more diplomatic, and said "the basics are all there"!!
Anyhow - then the rebuilding process started - working on one element at a time. Probably the hardest to fix was the kick - I've always been lousy at this, and while I'm not sure it will ever give me a great deal of propulsion, it will help to stabilise me, and was important from that angle if nothing else.
Many lengths followed, working on the different elements - shallower strokes, leg kicks, with Spans watching from both above and below the water. By the end I was exhausted, but reckoned I'd made some major improvements "a completely different swimmer", as Spans put it. I'm going to practise several times this week, to drill everything in. I did have patches where everything flowed, and I really felt like I was motoring. Just got to get it all ingrained so that I do that all the time.
The morning after - and my legs ache like mad! I'd obviously been using muscles I hadn't used before. The strength will come!
Huge thanks to Spans for giving me her time to do the session - you're a star :oD
Distance: Who Cares!
That well known international runner and famous duathlete, Spans, had kindly agreed to give me some swimming tips. I was exhausted after a touch week at work, and getting across town was a bliddy nightmare, but we met up at the agreed time of 4:45 in Isleworth. It's a lovely pool - would go there more often if it wasn't it such an icky place! Anyhow - it was near Spans, and she has the expertise!
We started off with a few lengths so that Spans could see my "style", and she observed that my legs "snaked" behind me, which was a comment I'd heard before. My legs also splayed out into a V shape, which would slow me down, and I was rolling too much, plus m,y arms went too deep, and I buried my head underwater. In short, I was sh1te. Spans was more diplomatic, and said "the basics are all there"!!
Anyhow - then the rebuilding process started - working on one element at a time. Probably the hardest to fix was the kick - I've always been lousy at this, and while I'm not sure it will ever give me a great deal of propulsion, it will help to stabilise me, and was important from that angle if nothing else.
Many lengths followed, working on the different elements - shallower strokes, leg kicks, with Spans watching from both above and below the water. By the end I was exhausted, but reckoned I'd made some major improvements "a completely different swimmer", as Spans put it. I'm going to practise several times this week, to drill everything in. I did have patches where everything flowed, and I really felt like I was motoring. Just got to get it all ingrained so that I do that all the time.
The morning after - and my legs ache like mad! I'd obviously been using muscles I hadn't used before. The strength will come!
Huge thanks to Spans for giving me her time to do the session - you're a star :oD
posted by XFR Bear @ 4:01 am
3 Comments:
She's a great coach and a hard task master isn't she!
Yeah - but it was fun at the same time - had a real laugh
Only girl I know who gets changed faster than me!
well you only need 5mins in the shower to wash and wash your hair
then dry and change
20mins tops
more like 10-15
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