TI Lesson Two

As taking my Triathlon Swimming Made Easy (TSME) book to the poolside would be a bit daft I have tried to memorise the drills I'd be doing in advance. So once I returned from the pool last night and checked up on my book it turns out I've spent an hour doing lesson 2 drills after warming up on lesson one. Luckily that was listed in the book as a good drill session. So I'm quite pleased with that.

Lesson 2 introduced "switching" via the underswitch. This involves using rotation of your whole body as you switch arms under water. Starting with one switch at a time and then progressing to double, and triple underswitches. It was quite an amazing feeling, up there with the feeling of balance from the first lesson's drills. I ended up doing an hour of drills and found doing 25 yard reps of triple underswitch was becoming quite easy.

I'll spend a few more pool hours practising these drills before I move onto lesson 3. That brings the switch out of the water and looks much more like a swimming stroke. From there it should be a quick step to full stroke swimming.

Today's training

• 13 mile cycle (did it at 5am this morning!!)
• Pose drills