Tricky day to day trying to combine keeping the February Fitness Challenge going with competing in a swim meet. Regular readers of this column know that I generally hold the concept of warming up with a degree of disdain, however today ‘s aim was to keep the yardage up, so I found myself covering 1800 metres in […]

Oops just in case anyone was  wondering the challenge is still on. A couple of swims in the public session at Consett on Friday and Saturday brought my monthly total to 58,500 and kept me on track for the swimming every day during February. I’ve fallen behind with the blogging because of a busy weekend. […]

The last two Thursday’s I’ve dropped into the public swim at Consett on my way home from work, but an appointment for a much needed haircut put paid to this plan. Leaving me marooned and in need of some water time (if I was to maintain this February Fitness lark). My solution was to swing […]

I know, I know, it was originally Vader’s line, but Yoda’s an all together cooler character and I was struggling to find a decent horizontal picture of Luke’s dad. But I was disappointed to discover that despite all of my efforts over the last 46 days my swim log was still telling me that my […]

So how was your Valentine’s day? I hope it was more exciting than mine as I spent my evening thrashing up and down a pool how sad is that?  The cumulative fatigue from 14 consecutive days of swimming is building up quite dramatically assisted by a rather taxing gym session this morning. I haven’t mentioned in […]

It wasn’t easy dragging myself out of bed for this morning’s swim I was aiming to get up at 6:15 but the desire to turn over and have an extra 40 minutes was overwhelming, and I made it to the pool with enough time for a 40 minute swim. I was aching a bit after the […]

Somewhat unusually (for Binge anyway) my week started off with a double session a 6:30am 1600 and then a Monday evening Masters session. What on earth is going on here? I even made it to the public Masters session at Stanley on Tuesday evening. I haven’t been there for a while and there was an […]

Emboldened by the minor success at Carlisle Masters last month, thoughts of completing the February Fitness Challenge began to creep into my head. Could I really swim every day for 4 weeks? I wasn’t entirely convinced but I found myself awake at 6:00 on the 1st February and the words “go swimming” inexplicably popped into my brain. Knowing […]

Blimey not only did Binge cover a fairly respectable 52400 metres in January but she also rather foolishly entered a swim meet (Carlisle Masters). I can’t remember the last time I swam in a Masters meet that wasn’t a championship event, and it must be almost 30 years since I’ve swam competitively in January; but […]

I know that the introduction to this Blog (here) asserts that I swim therefore I blog but surely in this era of “fake news”and “alternative facts” you’re not going to hold me to that. Since the turn of the year I have been focussed on trying to get back into the water and therefore the blogging […]