We’re blessed to have so many talented, dedicated athletes on this forum…& then there’s us 
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You’re welcome, I quite like it here 
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Well…I used to find I would come out of the swim near the front but then drift backwards during the bike and run! Since my accident I feel like I’ve lost a lot of my top power - combination of reduced shoulder function and swimming behind breaststrokers!
Yeah, I think so! I used to train a bit when I was younger but when my friends were swimming for GB I was still in the training pool! Lack of motivation and discipline - my coach said (although I thought I was putting the work in). I’m not sure I had the raw ability that others had - they would zone in on races - fire in the belly, whereas I would be too relaxed.
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Will start on this tomorrow morning. Low cadence and work on DPS is how I have it in my head. IIRC Solar did say to make sure you keeping pushing the water all the way through and not let it slip towards the back of the pull? Doing it in 50m repeats seems reasonable to me?
ETA: I have the reach of a swimmer so will be down to 1:20/100m in no time 
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make sure you end the stroke before the hand starts to push water up, so not “all the way back”. I always like just counting strokes doing 25’s and trying things. If you use the “nome” then you know stroke rate is staying consistent.
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moved here.
I sometimes do a sort of breastroke with fly legs, or maybe it’s more the underwater portion of fly. I think it came from someone trying to help my catch. I occasionally mix it with some backstroke for a swimdown. Double arm backstroke is another thing I was told to do at some point and has just stuck.
do double arm in the swimming club sometimes. I’ve never understood why though. Its one of those things that seems to just be done and no one has explained to me why
Just done a 50 minute session in the Seymour Leisure Centre pool Marylebone. Either the pool is more than 25 metres, or my SPL has gone through the roof!
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A bit of a breakthrough swim today. Finally feel that I’m seeing some of my speed come back. From the beginning of the session in the warm up, I just felt like I was stronger through the propulsive phase of the stroke, and not fighting the water.
Main set was 3x(5x100) with 20s rest per rep, and 60s per set. Target was to build in each block.
I went in with 1:39, 1:37, 1:35 targets, off the back of my 1500 at 1:37 pace.
Yet rep 1 just felt cruisy and came in at 1:36. Feeling I had more to give, I roughly stuck with that and did 1:37’s for the rest of that first set. I then proceeded to knock out 1:34’s on set two, and 1:31’s on set three. Really pleased with that.
The feeling in the warm up persisted throughout. As I tired, I felt I could focus on maintaining DPS and staying powerful, rather than just thrashing. Feeling a lot better about things after that.
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I’m thinking my pool might not be 25m 
It’d explain my times 
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15 x 100m off 1:45
Mostly 1:29-1:30.
Decided on the last couple to push it a bit.
Interesting how just a couple of seconds faster -
1:28/1:27/1:25 - made it feel much harder
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That’s how I find it.
I have my ‘speed’ and anything above that, even slightly feels much harder.
Pushed the boat out today. Added an extra 50m to a total of 1950m. God if my past self could hear my present self say that. 
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Yeah, agreed. The extra 1-2 seconds rest that you might get from a fixed “off” time don’t compensate in the slightest.
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Had a go this morning and was doing 50 strokes per minute, 18 per length, which (obviously) comes in at 22s. Found it odd as the cadence feels relaxed but each pull being forceful my pec’s were soon aware of the effort. Did get a bit of slippage and odd creep up to 19 SPL.
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that’s pretty good, Keep at it, as its good sport specific strength building also, think low cadence work on the bike
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2 of the lengths I did were at 17 SPL this morning 
with another 3 at kind of 17.5, in that I was too far out for an honest 17 but only needed a light pull to get there. Without boring with the detail, I did x8, 2x 100m then x6 but was finding the water was slipping and doing 19SPL so just did some steady/easy swimming for last 10 min or so.
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No set session today, but with the vaccine later, I thought I’d get a short swim in just in case it hits me harder than others. Just something short and sweet. Some fast 50’s where I was coming in at 40-41 seconds. And then after a couple of minutes rest, I did a flat out 100. Came in with 1:17, which I’m really pleased with. Shows there’s some sort of pace in there somewhere. I just need to up the endurance aspect now, which seems to be coming.
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So for 50s you’re doing 40-41, but for the 100 you do 38-39s per 50 
Good work, nice to see progress 
I’m getting jabbed tonight, but am doing naff all today…got a swim planned for the morning 
The 50’s were just controlled “fast”, and off 30s rest, as 2x5 reps.
The 100 was off longer rest and full gas
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(Or this week, post-jab!)