Marshall Street leisure centre? Never been there myself, might give it a go. Middle of Soho so should be a riot!
Looks like the LAC is indeed an Everyone Active centre now. Will have to take a visit over there. Is the pool always set up for 50m or do they sometimes split it into 2x25?
This is an Olympic venue they have the 50, two 25 and the diving pool! 
Don’t visit on school holidays, they ruin the 50 with kids and inflatables
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Club swim this morning. A rare occasion where the coach had us swim a flat out 100 fairly near the start of the session. I was in second position so benefitted from a draft, but managed 1:15 which is pretty rapid for me. We went again at the end of the session (after some alternating 50s of drill and then “fast” but with a cap on spl), and I came in around 1:18 or so.
Definitely seeing progression almost swim by swim at the moment
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Nice, the weird and annoying thing about my club swims is the oddball 36m pool size. All normal times just go out the window and I just think about the swims in laps. In-fact, I don’t even look at my watch during sessions now
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My club used to use two pools, one 25m and one 25yds.
I tried adjusting my times by the same percentage as the length but it just didn’t work. There was no way I could hit the same (equivalent) turnarounds in the 25yd pool as I could in the 25m pool.
I never really worked out why, maybe it was just a slower pool, but I had a theory that the time spent turning (I do open turns) was a greater percentage of the overall length time in the smaller pool so that it wasn’t just a simple sum.
Another swim, short and easy. You know form is coming back when you can swim slowly but with good DPS
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I’d guess this. I only do open turns, but am way faster in shorter pools with equivalent gutters, etc
Swim England have conversion algos / calculators, google them, but even then its heavily biased for SC . El Ninos SCM converted times are still generally faster than LCM swam times. Its why nationals dont allow converted times for QFing.
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Was talking to a marathon swimmer after he put in his morning 5km LCM 
If you can put in a 1:40 100. let’s say a 5 sec rest. What’s stopping you stringing 10 or 50 of them together. It can’t be technique, right?
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This is difficult to answer as it is but isnt technique. It coupd also be a number of reasons, but also all related to ‘fitness’ also.
The more fatigued you are the more you stop thinking about what you are doing and revert to type. So whilst technique may be better fresh, you may not have enough miles that it is fully ingrained. One reason for lots of short intervals on rest is so you do more good strokes and ingrain it rather than good strokes and bad strokes stopping the body from ‘learning’ the new way. Popov never swam “sloppy” even in warm ups, if he felt tired he stopped and got out. That was one of the differences between Soviet swimmers and US swimmers in the day and has led to the current thinking of less is often more.
Another reason is stroke rate could drop due to fitness, slower stroke, go slower.
There are a multitude of reasons dialling down further but that is the key reason.
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So…I’m thinking for the pool marathons, swimming with better form with ten seconds rest every hundred could be better and maybe faster than the continuous 1km x10 (the event as planned at LAC)
Try it in training, but its not inconceivable that just a short reset could end up faster.
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I could do with doing this
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First round of club champs today. I’ve only swum six times so far this year so I wasn’t feeling prepared going into it.
50m Butterfly = 38.12
25m Backstroke = 18.36
200m Freestyle = 2:48.72
Pretty happy with the first two but the 200m Free didn’t go well at all and I was nearly 14 seconds slower than my entry time.
Next round in three weeks time.
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23:57 for 1500 just now. I think that’s gotta be the first time under 24 in years. Certainly since covid related breaks in swimming (then followed by parenthood).
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Went along to Sea Lanes this morning - 800m warmup, 4 x 400m, 4 x 50m, 200m cool down.
Did think about staying a bit longer but they closed a lane for a coaching session and it started getting a bit busier in the other fast lane as a result.
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So much for my progress. No swimming for the foreseeable. Pretty much since this swim my wrists (left in particular) have not been good. Provisional diagnosis of ECU tendonitis, to be validated by MRI next week. Way more painful than any lower limb tendonitis I’ve had. My left hand is currently largely useless, which is a real issue with a 17 month old!
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Sorry to hear that, sounds sore. Does the other half believe you or just think you’re making up an excuse to get out of changing nappies?
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I have long term wrist joint issues due to bleeds. This wrist support is astonishingly good. I can go from an almost useless wrist and incredible pain to functional and manageable. It definitely won’t help with swimming but it may help with daily use. I still find it hard to believe it’s as effective as it is.
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Thanks. I’m using a more rigid immobilising brace at the moment which the consultant said was really overkill but that I might as well retain until the results of the MRI towards the back end of the next week. Likelihood is I’ll go on to sessions with a hand therapist, so going to see what they recommend.
But I definitely see how that works. One of the assessments the consultant did was getting me to perform actions which induced pain and then repeating them whilst he squeezed my wrist with his hand in the way that support would work. The pain was vastly reduced when he was squeezing.
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