{"id":14797,"date":"2013-10-17T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14797"},"modified":"2013-10-17T08:04:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T07:04:30","slug":"a-coached-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/a-coached-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"A Coached Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always been a fairly good swimmer, at least, as far as I can remember I have. I don’t remember really ever having had any proper coaching though or going to a proper swim club when I was younger. Somehow I just picked it up as I went along, trained hard here and there and became a fairly efficient swimmer.<\/p>\n

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Kindly Refrain From<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m not the best swimmer there is though so any opportunity to improve is always welcomed. I haven’t really ever had any proper coaching since I started training for triathlons either. I’ve been to group coached sessions such as swimfit and the\u00a0occasional\u00a0triathlon\u00a0club session and I always do prescribed sets and various drills in my own sessions, but I’ve never had anyone look closely at what I’m doing in the water.<\/p>\n

Winter Swim Emphasis<\/h2>\n

With this in mind and winter training upon us\u00a0I’ve decided to change this and get some one-to-one coaching. I\u00a0won’t be able to do too many sessions like this as my bank balance won’t allow it, but the plan is to have several sessions under the watchful eye of a swim coach over the winter. Hopefully they can then give me some tailored swim sets that will work on my weaknesses. I’ll go away and do my ‘homework’ for a few weeks and then meet up with them every so often so that they can track my progress.<\/p>\n

I thought the winter would be an ideal time for this as bike and run training intensities will be reduced for a few months allowing me to do a little more swimming. Hopefully the fact that swimming is low impact and relatively less stressful will mean that I can do a little bit more swimming than usual without too much of an impact on my overall training stresses.<\/p>\n

Years of Malpractice<\/h2>\n