After a rather frustrating twenty minutes trying to get a taxi (the singular joy of watching your driver via an app, driving straight past the road you’re waiting on and then not bothering to come[…]
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Category: Swimming
Swimming Lesson #33
Today I did almost an hour of freestyle, and nothing else. Two weeks ago I did a 27 second length of the pool and today I couldn’t match that, veering between 30 and 36 seconds[…]
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Swimming Lesson #32
Things went much better than expected. The last time I swam was almost two weeks ago. Since then I’ve had a kidney stone, been to the hospital three times, stayed up too late last night[…]
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Swimming in the big pool
I took the girls swimming this afternoon, and La Serpiente was being whiny and complaining that she had to carry her booster seat to the taxi. It got so bad that my wife told her[…]
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Swimming Lesson #31
I managed two lengths of the pool without a rest today, which was a big step up from before I went to Canada.
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Swimming Lesson #30
Today I had a fairly major achievemebt: I swam for 40 metres without stopping. Well, technically I swam one length of a 20 metre pool, and then swam straight back again, but that’s the furthest[…]
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Swimming Lesson #29
Today I spent about an hour in the pool. Half of that was freestyle, and when I was exhausted from that, we went onto backstroke, and then breaststroke. I still don’t have much stamina, but[…]
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Swimming Lesson #28
So with another two week break, again it feels like I’m starting from scratch, and yet there have been some improvements. It begins to feel like Groundhog Swimming Lesson, where each week I’m getting slightly[…]
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Swimming Lesson #27
It’s funny how I’m not seeing a synergy between the different workouts I’ve been doing. Both climbing and swimming require a combination of strength and flexibility, just as running and swimming both reward cardiovascular fitness.[…]
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Swimming Lesson #26
It’s been three weeks without swimming. Well, the one and a half laps I managed in Jakarta the week before last, and the two laps in Kuala Lumpur the week before that, and the visit[…]
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