I remember Charles saying about that little scull action on TT 1.0 which meant the drill was doable back then. But as Hammerer says, I have learnt better balance and improved the coordination of the rotation by keeping the arm and hand next to the body and leg.
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I deployed a little scull when I felt my momentum slowing, first time I’d ever done it. We also did some one armed swimming which highlighted some imbalances, particularly on my left
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Marshall Street pool, okay.
If you’re going to wander around in shorts with shaved legs, you might as well wander down Old Compton street. 
Found it eventually, not a bad pool deep one end very shallow at the other a bit like the nearby Oasis. I’m hoping it’s also a 27.5m pool otherwise I have become super slow.
I did some 1 arm drills, didn’t go for the no arm without fins to hand.
Couple of good swimmers on a Sunday afternoon kept the fast lane moving, but still difficult to knock out hard 100s.
Changing room a bit tight and locks needed but no one argued about my poolside bag.
Good enough for a Sunday not good enough for a serious session. Interesting architecture.
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I used to swim there and can assure you it is nowhere near 27.5m in length, sorry 
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It is in fact 30.5m (100ft), so you are faster than you thought 
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Thanks Doug!
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One of the guys I see in the pool regularly swam a 52.x 100m free over the weekend. He’s in his 60s
Never liked him 
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Im using a free trial of an app i was recommended, MySwimPro. Fares is on the Tubes and is very good (he also does some decent adult novice swim camps in exotic locations) . Anyway the app is pretty good and it gets around the shitty Training Peaks issues with “rests” as it uploads direct to Garmin Connect. You have plans and ready made sessions, videos of drills etc, and each session set you can adjust for more yards, less yards, cut bits out then you send it to Garmin and add it to your calendar from there. (I should look at getting access to the API for my athletes as TP is shite for swimming!) but anyway if you can find a free trial, give it a go. I’m doing a 22 session IM focus; today was Front Crawl, it was 1000m but i made it 1500 with a couple of tweeks
WU
4 * 100 FC on 2:15
4 * 50 Kick on 1:50
4 * 25 broken IM (on 50)
Main
4 * 25 12/3/12 drill on 50
2 * 100 FC focus on 2:10
2 * 50 fists on 1:20
2 * 100 FC focus on 2:10
CD
200 easy FC
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What is IM focused about that? Why can’t you just swim with a pull buoy at one speed (while actually slowing down throughout) for the entire session?
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today was FC focus, tomorrow is Back. 
I know, then I could swim 2hrs at IM flatlands (it was the rip i tell ya) and go 16:57 finishing in “heroes hour” like a leg end
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Form Goggles subs only has a short while left. I’m thinking about writing out a plan to roughly follow. Not sure I can be bothered though.
Swam in my old predators on Sunday, realised I haven’t been able to see in my Form for half a year or more - so weird to see the pool and other swimmers!
I’m not swimming much now, not sure if I care enough to make an effort. Wu, drills, main vary length and effort, wd.
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I’ve got into the bad habit of turning up to swim unprepared and its very hard to get past 1k and 9 times out of 10 i just do a bit of sprinting.
If you want basic sessions just shout.
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Last nights main set started with 1 swim, 1 fly x 6 - bloody hell, I’ve never swum that amount of fly in my life. Not helped by the 36m pool either, by the 5th length I was struggling to get my arms out of the water. Genuinely ruined me for the rest of the session which was two lengths hard x 4 followed by 6 easy x5 - I slept well last night!
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Don’t mention it. @Hammerer will suggest his IM focused sessions
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Single arm fly is good if not used to it. Id question why triathletes with no swim background are doing that , i do set it for adults but normally medley drills, single or 0 arm fly, Breastvwith FC kick, back rotation drills etc. I regularly set medley within sets for the kids, although they are triathletes, they have done this from the start.
I bloody questioned it!
Coach said it’s good for swimmers to use all the strokes, to which I replied I’m not a bloody swimmer, I’m your average triafleet innit!
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Now that is 100% true in the ideal world, its why the kids get coached that way, but an adult tri session twice a week usually , Id question, especially when most can barely do fly, hence using “IM drills” in warm up with a bit of a FC focus to them
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Just paid London prices for a swim! I’m a northerner 
Nice 50M pool though but it’s a lot harder when you’re not turning as often.
Garmin actually got the distance wrong and added 50m on one split when I stopped to let someone go, about the first time I’ve seen that in years.
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Backstroke day, FML I used to love a bit of backstroke as a kid but its really hard graft on the legs
WU
2 * 100 FC
4 * 50 Bk
4 * 50 Bk Kick w/fins
Drills
4 * 25 6/3/6
4 * 25 double arm Bk
4 * 25 9 o’clock
Main
200m Bk
8 * 25 Bk (alt fins/no fins)
CD
8 * 25 FC
1500m total
the FC CD felt brilliant after all the backstroke!
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More on IM,
Yesterdays 1 - 1.5hr trikids set
WU - 7pm
200FC
200Bk
200 k w/fins
Build - 7.14
4 x 50 scull up/FC back (front x2, mid, rear)
4 x 50 0 to full
16 x 25 on 30 every 4th IM stroke
Main 7.28
2 x (4x 100FC RPE7 on 2 , into 50 IM stroke hard on 1.30)
Easy couple of lengths
Extra 30min
2 x (4 x 100) on 1.35, hold 1.20
(4 x25 easy DPS between sets)
CD
easy kick chat then Morleys on way home
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