Endless Swimming w/c 01/06

Found it pretty hard to balance work and swimming this week as been pretty busy, so only did a couple of short sessions during the week. However made up for it in Dover on the weekend with a 4hr 30 and 6 hour swim on Saturday and Sunday respectively. The Sunday swim was my longest ever swim so that was a nice milestone to hit, and although the last hour was a real struggle it was a good feeling of progression.

During the week also went down to have an endless pool session. This is a pool about the size of 4 jacuzzis which has a constant stream of water for you to swim against. The facility is called Swim for Tri and is located at Brick Lane for anyone interested. Coaches analyse your stroke and tell you how to improve - not unsurprisingly my stroke was ripped apart, but took some interesting learnings away:

• Need to keep water level on top of head to take pressure off the lower back and aid bouyancy/body position - I always thought water level should be just above eyeline
• Kicking should be lower depth but higher frequency, and especially with the roll when breathing the feet must not cross and should be kicking at an angle (to support the glide)
• Arm should come out the back of the stroke after accelerating past the thigh
• Stroke should alwayss be Long and Strong

I will put up the video of my stoke that they gave me in due course!

Only other point of note was the ultrasound that the physio gave me which seemed to really help and my dodgy shoulder felt much better this week.

Last Week's Swimming

Tuesday - 2km - Speed Session
Thursday - 2km - Technique
Saturday - 11km - Endurance
Sunday - 16km - Mega Endurance