A brief break at lunch time today (Monday 11th May) and I had time to slip out of the office and crunch through a very short Tesco set, well every little helps right. Not a lot I can usefully add really. 400 free warm up alt 66 swim, 66 catch up 400 pull @ 7:30 […]

Consett Masters session was cancelled this afternoon so it was off to Newcastle Masters (with a bit of encouragement from Peter French) to be faced with one of His Majesty’s sessions, yet again I was successful in choosing a session which contained a test set….aargh. My last visit to Newcastle earlier this year had resulted […]

I turned up at the public Masters session at Stanley this evening (Thursday night, I’m more than a bit dilatory with my blogging at the moment) not quite the first time this year but almost.  It was pretty busy, previously 9 -12 swimmers would be a good turn out,  but this evening there were around 20 […]

In an effort to get this swimming show on the road, I snatched 40 minutes water time in my local pool over lunch time. There was no lane ropes and the pool contained the usual lunch time lappers coupled with a couple of sets of grandparents with toddlers in arm bands. I studied the throng trying […]

The Road to Kazan Starts Here (hopefully). There’s more than a touch of Deja Vu about this post, as I think I’ve been here before. Well actually I know I’ve been here before, (see 2014 comeback)  As you can see from this post on my old blog there’s just something about May bank holiday weekend […]

I made a real mistake in opting for the Ryton Tri session on Saturday 17th January, as I wandered onto the pool side to be faced with a timed 800 free, bleargh. EMSC 4.0 really knows how to dish it out, anyway a fairly feeble effort at 12:50 really exposing my lack of fitness. As […]

The return to swimming with Consett Masters was delayed by the gale force winds lifting the roof (or part of it) off the pool over the New Year, sadly the damage was not quite as bad as we had hoped for and it was up and running by last Monday (12th January). Pharell’s lyrics did […]

After that exhausting 200 metres at Pond Forge last Sunday, see January 4, 2015, (although as readers may recognise my spot was not quite as exhausting as our Master Apiarist’s) there was no hive of swimming activity on my return, as I was rather buzzy at work. In fact it took until Saturday afternoon beefore I finally made […]

What are you doing the first Sunday in the New Year? enquired our Masters Swimming Officer. I’m not sure how it happened but clearly the force is strong with Sharon Lock as she employed her Jedi mind trick skills on me and before I knew it there I was getting up at 5:30 am to drive to […]

Hello there and welcome to my first blog on this new site. You can still scoot over to bingeswimming.blogspot.co.uk where my last 4 years of aquatic efforts are maintained in their original digital glory, until I can figure out how to migrate them to this site, but for the moment it is technically beyond me. Now […]