Going Swimmingly!

Discipline: Swim
Distance: 1 mile (1600 metres)
Time: irrelevant

Yay - pool was open today - just a shame my swimming wasn't fantastic! I felt a bit sore for the first few lengths (still got DOMS from Saturday!) but the swimming helped to ease that. I struggled with the kick for a bit but that did seem to come. I set my sights on doing a mile, which I achieved, although I wasn't too pleased with my speed.

I had tried to slow things down, but I found it hard to get the kick right when swimming slower. If I kick like normal with the slower stroke, I tend to snake, and yet the extra effort of kicking at my normal faster speedmucks up my breathing. A tricky one, but one I'm going to have to sort out. I tried several 200m time trials, but pretty much without success. I was either too fast and ran out of breath, or too slow, or both.

Speed generally was an issue - I couldn't seem to break 50 seconds for 50m or 1:50 for 200m, both which I'd managed to do easily in the previous session. My breathing on the whole felt wrong - maybe it weas the after effects of the lurgy, but either way, after the first length, I could feel my technique suffering badly.

In the evening I went to the gym, aiming to do some weights, but the shoulder press really brought out the DOMS again, so I resorted to ten minutes on the tready, and some ab exercises, followed by half an hour in the sauna. My quads are still feeling tired when they really shouldn't - maybe I should just ease off them for a bit instead of running and biking! That said, I'm trying to lose weight - I've now dropped 0.6kgs since Saturday :o)