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 than the Durham session I had been visiting over recent weeks. I was moved out of the top lane when a bunch […]

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 as to whether or not I wanted to swim at 8pm when I noticed on Facebook that the session had […]

Well it’s been a long time coming but we finally got to swim in the new pool in Consett this lunchtime. It was great (even if the pool hall was rather warm) decent pool temperature, wave eraser lane ropes and deck level sides. There was a decent turnout as well with both big and little […]

I suppose the title to this post is a bit misleading as I’m not really sure it was a “Super” sprint (I’m just addicted to alliteration) and it definitely was not in Florent’s class (but it gives me a great excuse to post this picture). The background to this is that I somehow ended up […]

I was a bit slow on the uptake (now there’s a novelty!) and realised that last Sunday’s blog post was a bit of a milestone as it was my 500th post (albeit most of them can be found on my old site here). Consett are caught in the no mans land between the closing of one […]

If you’ve been following this blog, you may have realised that any thoughts I had of being seriously competitive in Kazan have been abandoned and I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’m just going to have a weeks holiday and immerse myself in the experience. Thinking on though it’ll be interesting to see how many […]

The last Sunday session at Consett pool, and it went out more with a whimper than a bang as I was the only Master who turned up. I had a lane to myself and chased the kids, (who were way faster than me,) through the set at the bottom of this post. I did feel quite […]

Not enough swimming this week but an interesting diversion on Wednesday morning as I finally bit the bullet and decided I needed to sort out my visa  before it became a last minute.com situation with no room for error. For the uninitiated my trip to the World Championships despite being in the Republic of Tatarstan […]

There really can’t be many more Sundays where I have to put myself through swimming 66’s and as much as I have a fondness for the old pool in Consett I can’t wait to move into the new one. I know that fundamentally I am a lazy cow and the thought of swimming 50’s instead […]

Via a transatlantic text I was directed to collect Teenage Triathlete’s new sunglasses from the opticians, they had sent her confirmation that they were ready at the Metrocentre, so I thought I’d swing by there on the way to training at Durham. Now for those of you who are unfamiliar with the geography of the […]