Masters 2010:
18 Jul East Region Open Water Championships
18 Sep NEC Masters - Middlesborough - Entry Form
29-31 Oct ASA SC Nationals
?? Dec South Yorkshires
Running:
Tri:
The Faulty Flipper is the informal home of the BOK Masters Squad. Masters swimming is for adult swimmers who do not mind getting their hair wet, want to get very fit, and to swim hard hoping to improve technique, get a bit faster, and have a laugh between gasps for air.

Weather

Weather observation for Huddersfield at 22:00 BST.

Temperature: 16°C
Wind Direction: E
Wind Speed: 21mph
Relative Humidity: 69%
Pressure: 1003mb falling
Visibility: Good

Weather information derived from data from bbc.co.uk.

New Intake

At last night’s training our new ‘intake’ of members from one of the other squads, now closed, joined in. The simple thing is that if you add ten swimmers to an already full pool the result will not be comfortable – for anyone or at all. It wasn’t.

First, and above all, welcome to the new swimmers. [...]

Wendy – Good Luck

Wendy, our only current World Champion swimmer, is off to Sweden over the next few days to take on the world again at the World Masters. First, and above all – Good luck. As someone once said “Stick One On ‘em”, and as Jamie once nearly said “Be proud of your . . .”
We can all [...]

Swim Workout 28 July 2010

Warm Up: 200 Free + 100 Back + 200 free/Pull + 100 IM + 200 Choice
Main Set:
3 x 200IMK – 1st drill, 2nd Kick/pull, 3rd full
16×50 IM order
2 x [3 x 100 free (50Hard+50 easy, 25 easy+50 hard+25 easy, 50 easy+50 Hard)
No time for swim down
Thanks to Suzanne for setting this and previous sessions. It is [...]

Coaching

Not quite sure, but Nick seems to have finished coaching and will no doubt return shortly as a swimmer. He deserves all the hell you can give him . .
What do we do now? There is no immediate prospect of a coach taking over. Though things might turn out well, we can and should only look [...]

August Swimming – Above Us Only Sky

You will have heard that we (BOK Masters Squad) were to close down for the last two weeks in August. Not Now. Thanks (a big thanks) to Gemma, the squad will, as usual, swim through.
There are a lot of rumours churning about in the changing rooms and showers. Not all of them have been started by [...]

BOK Masters Swimming – Swim Set July 11 2010

BOK Masters – Sunday. Finishing 25 minutes before the start of the World Cup Final.
Warm up: 10 mins Assorted (750m).
Main Set: Free – 200, 175, 150 . . 25
Free/flippers 25, 50, 75 . . 200 – easier but longer underwater out of turn.
3 x 100 IM
Swim Down 200m
Off to watch [...]

Set 4 Jul 10 – Consomme

Warm Up: 4 x [100 free + 50 ch] + 4 x [50 fr + 25 kick]
Main Set:
- 5 x 100 Free off standard+10sec
- 10 x 50 off 1m 10s
- 5 x 100 IM off 2m 15s
150m swim down.
Somebody had lost whatever key it is which keeps the water temperature down, and the water was unhappily [...]

Swimming Workout – 26 June 2010

Warm Up: 200m free + 200m Choice + 2x100m IM + 200 pull
Main Set: 4 x [4 x {125} ] 1st and last length of each 125 IM strokes. 20 seconds rest – additional 20 secs each 4 swims.
Swim Down: 200m easy
BK Masters Swimming quad – 25m pool, 1 hour session set by Mick Overton. Lane [...]

Nick is Falling In

Nick has now confirmed that he has been returned to active duty as a fire fighter. The immediate consequence is that he will be working shifts, and that therefore he cannot commit to coaching us. Sometime between now and early August he will disappear as coach – and re-appear as a swimmer. Good for him.
Far too [...]

Workout – 19 Jun 10

Warm up: 300 free + 200 ¬free + 100 pull/kick
Main set 2 x ( 2 x 200 + 4 x 100 + 4 x 50) First set free, second set ¬ free. Alternating swims easy/hard.
Lane 4 of 6. One hour session in 25m pool for BOK Masters. Coach [...]

Masters Swimming – Swim Set – 13 June 2010

Session Sunday 13 June 2010
Warm up: 2 x [100 free + 100 ¬free + 100 pull/kick]
Main Set: 4 (Free/Choice/Free/IM) x [5 x 100m]
A simple killer.
This is for lane 4 out of 5 for OK Masters Simming squad. 25m pool/1 hour. Set by [...]

North East Counties – 26 September 2010

The NEC championships are set for Saturday 26 September. They are to be held at Middlesborough. An entry form is available here. The actual event is at the Neptune Centre Swimming Pool, Ormesby Road Middlesbrough TS3 7RP – tel: 01642 230 106. It is 85 miles from Brighouse (well you can do your own calculation) and [...]

5 June 2010 – swimming session

warm up: 7 x 100 mixed

2 x 800 – concentrate on good turns

8 x 25 on 35s IM order.

7 x 50 (fly, fly/back, back, back/breast, breast, breast/free, free)

Swim down: 50m
I really enjoyed this. John led the 800s, and created havoc by going off all-ambly, but speeding up at about 600m.

WeOf was the true star. When surrounded [...]

Swim Workout - 23 May 2010

Warm up: 10x [50 free +25? + 5s RI] ?=4 on pull, 4 on kick, and 2 back
Main set (Fins On) 5 x 200m on 30s RI – emphasis on good kick out of turns and long arm strokes.
[100 free] + [75 free+ 25 Back] + [50 Free + 50 Back] + [25 Free + 75 [...]

Session – 19 May 2010

Warm up: 4 x [100 free + 50 choice ] 2 x 100IM
Main Set: {4 x [ 100 free + 50 pull (long stroke]} + {5 x 100 ¬free} + {5 x 100 free /1m50s}
3 x 50
Swim down.
1 Hour, Masters swimming session, in a 25m pool. Lane 4/5.
We has not quite managed to slow down after [...]

Yorkshire Masters Championships

I am writing a longer piece about the above, but as yet the results have not been published. It used to be that at the end of a meet, everyone would hang around for an extra half hour to pick up the results, but we don’t now. They have them, but make them available on a [...]

Swim Set - 12 May 2010

Warm Up: 100 Free + 100 Pull + 100 Free + 200 Choice – regroup – 8x25m Choice/Free

Main Set: 3x [100 free (emphasis on turns) on 1m50s + 100 free build on 1m 50s + 100 no free Max on 2m20s]
3 x [ 50m pull/Kick/swim]

Singles from a dive.

Swim Down
The climbing out and swimming Max efforts [...]

Teams for the Yorkshires

Yorkshires 2010

103
104
105
106
122
123
124
125

203
204
206

Event

180 FS
180 FS
100 FS
100 FS
220 FS
100 Med
180 FS
140 Med

180 med
180 med
100 Med

Age
M
F
M
F
Mixed
Mixed
Mixed
Mixed

F
M
M

Jamie Offord

25

X

X

Gemma Hey

32

X

X

X

Carolyn Irvine

47

X

X

X

Sarah Kinsey

31

X

X

Sally Shields

56

X

X

X

Wendy Offord

56

X

X

X

Suzanne Patterson

40

X

Jackie Hepples

29

X

X

Kirsten Durrans

43

X

David Swarbrick

59

X

David Eddowes

51

X

Brian Godfrey

55
X

X

X

Andrew Czyzewski

27

X

X

X

Tony Fawthrop

48
X

X

X

Martin Temple

33

X

X

Stewart Worthy

32
X

X

Rob Gothard

32

X

X

David Manning

57

X

X

Martin Locke

29

X

X

X

Martyn Binns

52
X

X

Total

187
199
121
117
226
113
186
153

191
212
121

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David Swarbrick

59

David Eddowes

51

Brian Godfrey

55

Andrew Czyzewski

26

Martin [...]

9 May 2010 - Swim set

Warm up; 5 x (100 free + 50 choice) + 10s RI
Main Set: 6x 100 on 1m 50s
3 x 100m IM on m 5s

2 x 100m max from dive on 4m
3 x 50m Choice from dive on 2m

150m [...]

Swim Session - 8 May 2010

hard again:
Warm up: 700 mixed
Main Set: 3 x 200 Free (25s RI) + 8 x 25m mixed; 4 x 100 free (15s RI) + 8 x 25m mixed; 8 x 50m free (10s RI) + 8 x 25m mixed
Swim down: 200m free
2900 m. A one hour session in a 25m pool.
ZoJa is back and has finally [...]

Swimming Session 5 April '10

Warm Up: 400m choice; 4 x 50m +10s RI, 8 x 25m on 30s

Main Set: 5x100m + 100m easy choice off 1m 50s; 4x100m +100m easy choice off 1m 55s; 3x100m + 100m easy choice of 2m; 2x100m + 100m easy choice off 2m 5s; 100m + 100m easy choice off 2, 10s. Each group of [...]

Swimming Session - Sunday 2 May

Warm up; 4 x 150 [100m free +50m (free/kick/pull/choice)] + 2 x 100m IM
Main Set: 12 x 100m / 20secs RI – sets of three fours with one length moving through. First four pull, second kick, third fast.

12 x 50m / 15s RI- in threes IM order, alternating fast and medium.
Swim down: 150m
A one hour session [...]

Training Session Saturday 1 May 2010

Warm up: 600m choice – regroup 2 x 199m IM

Main Set: IM build to 100m (25 fly + 50 Fly/Back + 75m Fly/Back/Breast + 100m IM) + 125m Free + 150m Free + 175m free + 200m Free (Rest intervals growing from 5s to 30s. Then reverse – 200m Free down to 25m Fly
Second Set: 2 [...]

Swim Session 28 April 2010

Warm up: 3 x 200m [150 free + 50 choice ] + [150 choice + 50 free]
IM: 2 x [25m fly + 50m fly/back + 75m fly/back/breast + 100IM ]
Technique: 2 x [50m free 1-first 20 max, 2-first 30 max, 3 all max ]
Main Set: 2 x [4 x 100m Free max effort Dive/wall/wall/dive - [...]

Coaching Appointment

Carly Finn has been appointed to be ‘A Squad’ coach for BOK until the summer whilst the scheme and the relationship with BOK is worked out more properly.
The suggestion is that we (Masters) _might_ just get some early morning time again. Fine for me, but my wife will be cursing the [...]

Squad size

Nick’s success is evident in that, yet again, each lane has been successfully filled. Last night we were at five or six swimmers in every lane but one. With only a few more new swimmers, it might begin to prove difficult. We haven’t got there yet, because Nick has been able to manage the lanes satisfactorily, [...]

Swim Session - 25 April 2010

Warm up: 10 x 75m (50 free + 25 choice)

8 x 25m on 30s – IM order down, free back
Main set: 12 x 100m free (3 on 2:00, 3 on 1m 55s, 3 on 1m 50s, 3 on 1m 45s)
100 choice easy
10 mins 25m choice sprint from dive – emphasis on length on dive.

150m [...]

Swim Set - 24 April 2010

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Warm Up: 300 free + 200 choice + *200 IM
M+ain set: 4 x [200m easy free + 200 IM hard] 1st IM – singles, 2nd IM 50s, [...]

Swim Set - 22 April 2010

Warm up: 300 Free; 200 choice, 2×100 IM Straight then reverse
Main Set: 5 x 200m free (1 – 200 pull, 2 – 150 pull+50 full, 3 – 100 pull+100 full, 4 – 50 pull + 150 full, 5 – 200 fast full)
4 x 100m Free on 1m 50s; 4 x 50m Choice
6 x 25m (20 blast [...]

Swim Session - 21 April 2010

Pool: 25m. A one hour session set by Nick Overton. Times are for lane 4 of 5.
Warm Up: 4 x [100m + 50 non-free] + 2 x 100m IM straight then reverse
Main Set: 2 x [4 x 100m free on 1m 50s] / 30s RI
Climb out
200m Free Max
2 x 100m choice Max
2 x 50m choice Max
Swim [...]