Yeah we used to do drills on good side breathing, bad side, bilateral. As well as the 3, 5, 7s.
I think the only real negative I found was when I went back outside … straight lining in open water just didnt happen.
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It’s not bilateral per say that I was encouraged to do, but to have the ability to breath both sides. As with @Poet I find breathing regulates my pace. Bilateral is a nice cruisy pace, 2,2,3 if I’m pushing it.
Or it was, last time I got wet. I don’t even go out in the rain anymore, let alone submerge in a body of water…
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I have had one tri where the sun was really low and making it really difficult to see anything when breathing to the sun rise. Although the speed I am swimming now I will get it at sunset too.
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Good coaches don’t 
I use it as a drill, I also get people breathing to the same wall as well to help OW prep, but train as you’ll race generally and you should race every 2
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What is it with swimming and drowsiness - Ive found it really hard to motivate my lunch and afternoon workouts because I’m drowsy all day after a short swim 
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Small steps today.
3x(5x100) - 20s rest between reps, 60s rest between sets.
Target was to slightly build the pace. Largely managed that with fairly consistent 1:41s first set, 1:40s second set, and 1:38s final set.
I was having to work by those final reps however!
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Last swim of the week
1500m swim
1km fins and snorkel
1km pull and paddles
500m splits nice and consistent throughout
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Was aiming for a continuous 1500 but felt fatigued at 1033, no point in swimming with bad form so took a break at 1100 then finished off with an easy 400.
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Session length was 45 minutes this morning, set out to see if I could still do 50 x 50 off 50 seconds which ought to take exactly 41 minutes 40 seconds. Answer yes, just about, but it was more like 30x50 plus a 1000m continuous swim. Didn’t make many friends in the lane by splashing past then stopping all the time 
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Only swim I’ve done this morning is in my own pity.
Mild hangover after a few too many half’s last night 
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I would have previously said this should have been fairly doable. Not a chance in hell at the moment!
Good work!
Today was always a day out of the pool for me. Might see if I can squeeze something in Sunday. But probably helpful to have a bit of rest and let the muscles adapt. Will be interesting to see how things progress next week. Even in back to back to back to back sessions, I felt some of the muscular endurance coming back (which on that first session disappeared after exactly 100m!)
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Don’t want to burst your bubble too much but Walnuts is 33m so you are 10m down after 1k 
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500pull, 100 free X 3
Third session of the week, practically unheard of for me. Shoulder pain for less than half the session. Today is full of positives 
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17km last week seems to have kickstarted me back.
10 x 200m off 3:30 this morning - although one was 250m.
Was a couple of guys in the lane so the turnarounds weren’t always bang on
Still reasonably consistent on the laps
1km Pull & paddles
450m fins and snorkel
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That 17km of swimming is mind boggling to me. No wonder you’re so lucky with your swim times 
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That was over 5 sessions, so only 3400m each time.
Only a third or less of that was intervals and none of those were balls out.
The rest was pull/paddles, easy swim or fins/snorkels
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I just get bored after 40 minutes.
Do you have those jawbone conducting headphones?
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he has £200 goggles that show Netflix
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Pools in Wales are still shut until 3rd May 
. I’ve booked up a swim across the border this evening.
The lanes are fully booked, so I’m not really sure what I’ll manage to do but planning on doing 50’s as smooth as I can.
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if its a 25m pool, add a batch of 16x25 off a “reset” (about 5seconds, but off 30secs holding 20’s etc…dont stress the rest) then 100m easy, then another batch. do some 50’s as well, maybe the WU and CD can be 8x50’s. Include some kicking (kick up pull back … kick with pull buoy out front!) It may be a bit frustrating with a journey but keep it to 30mins at most!
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