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When I went back to swimming a few weeks ago, the first few sessions were fine.  But then last week I came out the swimming pool and started sneezing my head off.  Well it is the season for colds and the like, and on Tuesday I was chatting with someone who had experienced the same [...]

Last week when I was swimming as part of my cross training over the winter, I was doing front crawl and breast-stroke.  There was a guy in there who was going much faster than me no matter what stroke I was using. He did have full swimming tights on, so I don’t know if that [...]

One of the problems I have had with getting back into the water is that of running out of breath.  Seems like swimming and breathing weren’t really meant to go together. My two strokes are breaststroke and front crawl.  Breast stroke I find quite easy to get the breathing right, but crawl, perhaps because it [...]

It doesn’t matter which stroke you use, there are two factors which are going to affect your speed more than any other (unless you have some special clothing ,that is…and then it’ll make only marginal, though important, differences in terms of a second or two). These are strength and drag. And the sum total of [...]