Day 5 of the World Masters is always Relay Day, so Lynne and I had a day off to sightsee. Now one of the amazing difficulties we’d encountered during our trip was how difficult it …
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Binge’s Adventures Abroad Day 6, Herding Cats
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Binge’s Adventures Abroad Day 5 Still Got It?
Now all this Binge Swimming not doing enough training malarkey (which is perfectly true ) is my excuse (and probably a very valid one) for the fact that my competitive performances often leave quite a …
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Binge’s Adventures Abroad Day 4 – Failed Assassination attempt by Russian Sprite
Day 4 started with a minor disaster, I was assaulted by a bottle of Sprite. I can’t remember whether or not I’ve mentioned this before but the “Gulag” is deemed a dry zone and I …
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Binge’s Adventures Abroad Day 3 – Let Loose in Kazan
The Brits are rapidly coming to the conclusion that this is a phenomenal meet, and from a sport point of view probably the best we’ve ever experienced, if you stayed behind you’ve really missed something. The …
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Binge’s Adventures Abroad 2015 Day 2
Despite the 14 hours of travelling to get here the Brits have by and large viewed this trip as a jaunt to another European city and rather than arrive a few days beforehand to properly …
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Binge’s adventures abroad Day 1
Ok admit it you’d never even heard of Kazan (or even the Republic of Tatarstan) until FINA in its infinite wisdom chose to award the 2015 World Swimming Championships to this Russian City. So another …
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Saturday Shopping and Swimming
Teenage Triathlete returned to our shores on Tuesday and needed me (or more precisely my credit card) to go shopping yesterday afternoon. This meant that I had to opt for the earlier Ryton Tri session rather …
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Wednesday Wipe Out
Ever had one of those swim sessions when you know that no matter what you try it’s going to be pants? Well on Wednesday I made it home around 6:40pm and was humming and harring …
