To try and claw back some yardage I travelled over to Newcastle for their Saddo session (i.e. for people who have nothing better to do at 8:30 on a Friday evening). HRH Evil Mutant Swim Coach 7.0 was in fine form and we were joined by other minor majesty in the form of East Leeds’ […]

It’s been a long time coming but this month sees the opening of the new pool. We’re going to consign to our memories the old and rather tired and trying 33.3 metres of the old pool and have a brand new 25m pool in its place. I haven’t quite worked out when I’ll make my […]

Keen to exploit yesterday’s enthusiasm I headed up to Consett for the Masters session this lunchtime. I was stopped in my tracks by the receptionist who advised me that there was “no club on”, sadly my good intentions were dashed by the curse of the “diddy league” Drat and double drat, what’s a girl to do? […]

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, especially because there’s been no swimming, well actually if I’m being honest there’s been plenty of swimming it’s just that in true Binge style I haven’t done any. Things are a bit quiet at home because I am also currently Teenage Triathleteless having inflicted her on some good friends […]

Had an interesting start to day 2 of the British Masters, TT felt seriously unwell so at 12:30 am I found myself walking into the A & E department of Manchester Royal Infirmary. Witching hour! The 4 hour marathon of mind bending monotony was periodically allieviated by chats with a triage sister, a nurse who […]

The trip down to Manchester last night was awful, the original plan was to leave around 6 but in pretty typical Binge style it was nearer 7 when we set off. Teenage Triathlete had decided to join me for the weekend despite being in the middle of “A” level revision. This was because Bob had […]

Whatever it was that made the guys wimp out of Wednesday’s session then it was still having an effect today as I turned up to swim this afternoon and found myself as the sole representative of Masters swimming. In fact there wasn’t even many kids in, probably preferred to be outside on a glorious afternoon […]

For the 3rd time in 4 days I made it to the pool to suffer yet another one of EMSC 1.0’s sessions. It is probably a combination of my encroaching old age and the initial stirrings of mad cow disease but I can’t for the life of me remember the details of what we swam. I […]

Having been coerced by Queenie Reid yesterday I had little option but to make it to training tonight (Monday) (what two consecutive sessions easy there Binge). I was standing on the poolside watching EMSC 1.0 craft the next hour or so of torture, and as he wrote the session up on the white board, he […]

Oops another slip up on the training front with no swimming last week , and walked onto th pool side amidst hoots of derision from Queenie Reid, who then mentioned (at least 5 times in the hour session) that she was off to Tenerife next week and would look for a 50metre pool to keep […]