I’ll throw my swim cap into the pool. I haven’t swam since March but sub 8 sounds doable.
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That was then.
20 years later I’m firmly mid pack!
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Thinking about this while splashing in the pool just now.
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The @funkster 50 challenge. A special treat for that special occasion.
- 400m in under 5:50
- 1000m in under 15:00 (admittedly that one’s a bit tenuously shoehorned into the 50 thing)
Just did 10 x 100m off 2 mins, hitting the wall in 1m23-1m24 for 13m55 of moving time. So maybe it feels not impossible here. But still feeling quite attached to those 6 minutes of rest at present.
Have I got until Dec 31st for this?
By Saturday might be a stretch 
Faster than I can manage 
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WTC says you have had since Jan 1st, so don’t see why not
Think you have that sort of engine that surely will chomp up the 1000m whereas I drop off quicky after 50m & keep dropping. How anyone can even consider the 100x100 thing is a mystery to me 
I got 89 a few years back and regret not pushing through
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Dart10k sold out
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Is 100x100 a regular for Chriswim every Xmas/next year?
No chance for me.
You guys must all go under the hour for 3.8km.
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Not a regular for me personally*, but yes my Aus tri club like it so I’ve done it two years in a row. Haven’t swam with them in 2023 yet but if I’m training well I’d probably join for it again this year.
*For reasons similar to the current parkrun 5k discussion. Physiologically I think you could do far better sessions, and my form definitely dropped at 75 onwards and became a completion exercise so for 90% of the club I imagine it’s just a lot of time practicing bad form and swimming slow.
But of course challenges are what inspire, so the round number of 100x100 is great as a one-off if thats the goal to work towards.
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Dipped under in the only IM I did, but who knows if that was accurate distance. Plus wetsuit etc. Plus was younger.
After that, didn’t swim 3800m again all at once for about 15 years, because frankly why would you?
Then we moved to a place with easy access to a 25m pool, and suddenly it made a bit more sense again. Have tried it again a couple times this year, 1h05-1h08 ish, and a really tough sess 
That’s what getting old and not swimming much does i guess 
edit: part of the interesting thing for me though is seeing if it’s possible to claw any time back, poor old fossil. Swim times over both 400 and 3800 are now about 10% slower than PBs from 2007ish. But that’s not true for running, where times haven’t really slowed much for some reason (
). So I’m thinking it may not be an engine issue
edit #2: just did 5*200m off 3:30 and hit the wall in 2:58, 2:57, 2:57, 3:03, 2:57 so I feel something is maybe slowly coming back. But this is with swimming almost every day
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Couldn’t make my masters session so tried to put a little structure into my swim rather than plod along like I usually would when swim on my own. Kept it easy for the brain 6 x 50/100/200 in the outdoor pool - lovely!
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Scraped under last year in Frankfurt, but touch and go
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https://twitter.com/Alan_Couzens/status/1659314157819412480?t=wfGBOwPQqM8wRb69qXHqzw&s=19
AC speaking the truth
Whatever
I am away with work next week. Hotel has a pool so hoping to get in a few times and do some skills and see how my shoulder copes. It’s a work course and a bit full on apparently so hopefully get the time.
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It’s like the running thread for swimming. Who’d have thunk it
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I’m at my parents & my daughter is torturing me by going through my old school reports, newspaper clippings & certificates 
Anyway swimming, always had it mate 
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I was 6, so may have had help with words like resuscitation, emergency etc 
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Minehead as well
I was there in 86 when that Argie twat cheated us out of the World Cup 
I appreciate it probably amused you 
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Do the actions of your parents ever baffle you once you reach adult life? We lived in Cornwall, my parents took us on holiday to: Butlins Barry Island. Wtf?
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