It’s been a good training week.
With a hiatus on races, I’d made a decision to concentrate
mainly on my swimming over the next month. My ASA membership card had dropped
through the letterbox and I received email confirmation of membership of
Trafford Metro Swimming Club. This meant I could complete entry forms for
upcoming Masters events, something that I’m really looking forward to competing
in.
With the entry forms I have to submit my anticipated race
times for each distance and stroke event that I intend to compete in. Having
concentrated on stamina and endurance latterly, I haven’t done any real work on
speed for months. Therefore, it was time to dig out the Speedo Aquacoach to
find out how I’ve been getting along. The Aquacoach is worn like a wrist watch
in the pool and measures, time, speed, stroke count, laps (lengths) and calories
burnt. I took measurements over various distances using breast stroke and front
crawl.
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| Speedo Aquacoach |
Using my Finis Tempo Trainer to pace myself, I was very
pleased with the improvement in my times. Bearing in mind I was using a slow
in-water start as opposed to a dive start, the times were vastly improved compared
to my last measurements about 6 months ago. In fact, I am now swimming faster
than my competitive school days. I managed to smash my 100m breakstroke time by
10 secs. Either I am much fitter than I ever have been (probable) or the pools
are getting shorter (less probable).
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| Finis Tempo Trainer |
After recording my measurements, I dug out the results of
last year’s Etwall Masters meeting (Etwall will be my first Masters event next
month) and noted that I would have come top five in most of my events,
including a winning time for the 100m Breast stroke.
Seems I’m doing ok at the minute but no room for
complacency.
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