Sunday. The sets are getting harder, or the swimmers are getting faster, or I am trying a bit more.
Warm up: 3 x [1oo free + 100 choice]
Main Set: 3 x [100 free + 4 x 50 + 200] All on 15 seconds rest interval.
IM: 100 + 75 + 50 + 25 + 25 + 50 + 75 + 100 – all on 15 seconds RI, dropping last length down, adding it back on the way up.
That was enough. A one hour session in a 25 metre pool, in lane 4 of 5,set by Nick Overton.
We had a few ‘descendants’ again – swimmers who are being pushed down the lanes by the fact of new faster and younger swimmers coming in at the top end. BrGo set off manfully to leave us ‘chasing his bubbles’. We were then joined by JiWh and MiGi. MiGi for some reason held back toward the rear of the lane. JiWh never quite knows which lane he is in. When up to and for it, he will very happily swim two lanes above us. When feeling his injury, he drops down. It was one of those evenings where he should have been two lanes up.
The result in any event was that a few hours later, I could still feel the burning in my arms. Grand.
Best of all we were visited by a young lad called Alfie – the new son of Rachel and Jim. At a couple of weeks old, it is not yet possible to measure his future as a swimmer, but he should be grateful that he will have a few years of innocence before having to face the possibility of joining the squads. Heaven help him.
