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Carl, have you taken any lessons yet? It sounds like you need to conc on lengthening yer stroke a bit...
Im phoning my instructor ASAP as I need to get better, im contemplating trying a TI weekend after reading Will's report but not sure if I can afford it.
eek if im nealy 40 strokes a length thats not good... Still im just about fit enough to do 160 lengths in 1hr 45 with a combination of crawl and breast stoke and with 13 more weeks (39 sessions should be able to get that nearer 1hr 30).
don't stress... plenty of time to improve... I think the general rule of thumb appears to be under (if you can) 1 stroke per metre...
Sounds like you need to try and conc on gliding a bit more and making each individual stroke count and pull you along...
Sorry to any 'pro' swimmers out there... For the advice giving... Believe me I ain't no pro!
TI does sound good and I'd like to give it a go... but there are other and cheaper swim coach sesh's that wuk on the same kinda glide principles as TI does I've found...
www.swim-masterclass.co.uk/ is one I've used and found useful...
TI was realy good
Swimming is all about good form and long swimming in TRI is about conserving your energy
If your arms are going ike a windmill you will use a lot more energy than you realy need during the swim - good fom can drasticly reduce the energy expended thus leaving you fresh for the rest
To this end - increas the amount of swim time you devote to drils - you are fit enough to go the distance so dont worry about loosing the odd long swim i favaor of drills - as long as you go long at least session in 4
Gud luk
Thankyou
Dodge you are more than a match for any mafia, breast stroke or otherwise I would have thought.
Most pools have some Dodge, the kind of 2 abreast non hair wetting types, moving up and down the pool like super tankers with no possibilty of swimming round them. Clucking disaprovingly should anyone want to do anything other than gossip loudly to their immediate neighbour as they drift up and down. Fortunately the relative sanity of swim lanes can help, where at least there is a chance of people of equal pace being grouped together. The attendants can not always be bothered to put them in though. I don't have anything against a good gossip, or being slow as I am both of those, but I am aware of faster swimmers and give way accordingly so as to let them pass at the end of a length.
Not that I would have made much in the way of reminstration, I'm not that sort of person. I suppose my initial "look" may have inspired him to remove himself.
Decided to do some laps i.e. not touching walls and all i can say is its darn hard work when you dont touch off or stop for a rest. Did 50 mins (equivilant to 80 lengths and only touched down about 3 or 4 times) - im not looking forward to this open water swim malarky...
All will improe with practice I hope but can see the disadvantage of not going straight - i.e. swimming a few hundred meters than needed.
Ill more than likely be switching between Breast Stoke and crawl for my tries this year so ill be able to correct myself and swin stright during the breastroke.