If the definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results then the Binge swimmer is truly bonkers. For the last four years, or to adopt more pretentious Olympian vocabulary, the last quadrennial, Binge has set herself the mile a day challenge. i.e trying to swim on average mile […]

After a rather uninspiring start to the training camp, from a weather point of view anyway; the first full day kicked off with brilliant sunshine, a decent cup of coffee and a leisurely stroll to the pool to arrive in time for….. a pre swim  stretching session! It all started so well with a lovely […]

Oh Bloody hell, only 26 days to go to the Europeans and no were near enough  water time for the Bingeswimmer. But relying on my years of last minute cramming and finely honed ability to skid through life by the skin of my teeth, the solution seemed obvious to me and involved of course a Lanzarote […]

Sunday 10th January.  My Billy No Mates status would come to an end today as Judo and Sumo were due to join us later this afternoon, I wasn’t sure that they would make it prior to today’s sessions so I ploughed on in my splendid isolation. Sunday evening’s session brought some company in the form of Kookie, […]

Saturday 9th January – A pleasant surprise as I flipped through the pile of schedules lovingly prepared by EMSC 4.0, today (or at least this morning) was to be a rest day and I can’t say I don’t need it. My swimming might not be very good but at the moment I could sleep for […]

Friday 8th January.. A really heavy couple of swims today interspersed with some quality time on a sunbed. Sadly not only did yesterday’s effort, a whopping 7900 metres; take its toll on Binge today, it finished off the Toosmart toosmartwatch… Which died in the middle of this morning’s session…. Clearly it doesn’t expect seriously unfit […]

(Thursday 7th January ) double session I have mentioned on previous occasions that I do have a bit of a tendency towards gadgets (usually purchased by Bob as a Christmas present) and have written about Toosmartwatch and Son of Toosmartwatch here and here. Well a malfunctioning  chest strap and lack of any incentive meant that Son of Toosmartwatch […]

So after my promising start to the year (2 sessions in 4 days) Tuesday found me planning a very early great escape from work, as I had a Ryanair flight to catch at 6:40am on Wednesday, no big deal right? Wrong I had to drive to Manchester to catch it. I’ve already spoken here about the difficulties […]

A somewhat belated Happy New Year Bingefollowers. I hope you all had a great break and are full of resolve and resolution for the challenges that 2016 is going to throw at us. As you know (from here) I rather uncharacteristically survived 4 sessions during Christmas week, which somewhat begged the question could I possible keep this going? […]

How did your Christmas Holidays go? In an unusual flurry of swimming activity I managed to hit the pool 4 times after Christmas. Regular followers of they blog will know this is rather a unique event in Bingeswimming lore and I was motivated by the thought that it was going to hurt whenever I started and […]