Sunday 16th July When the going gets tough the tough go shopping.

I was determined to keep the swimming up but Teenage Triathlete is back and I found myself being persuaded to take her shopping. The only problem was m Sunday swim session was right slap bang in the middle of prime retail therapy time….. What’s a Bingeswimmer to do? Well it was Fenwick’s last day of […]

Saturday 15th July Budapest 30 days out, is it too late to start training?

A bit of a panic going on as I realise that I’ll be in Budapest in 4 weeks time. There’s also this little matter of training as somewhat predictably I haven’t been in the water since last Sunday. Compared with previous championships I have done a bit of training this year but it’s never enough […]

A day at the beach

I’m trying to fill you in on the last three months of the Binge Swimmer’s life as I am acutely aware there’s been a Binge Blog Vacuum. Being a lazy cow the easiest way is to just use my old copy from the Swimming Times column, hence the odd reference to my (long suffering) editor […]

The road to Budapest via Leeds?

Budapest training back lash spices things up?