Struggling to make these posts fresh every week.

Nothing really different or exciting this week and no meet performance to pass on to the viewing masses who look forward to my Saturday ramblings. I guess the main reason for my blog is not to entertain the masses but to use it as a tool to ensure I stick to my targets of training and don't give up on the diet. I will be a little embarrassed if I fail in either endeavour. The final piece of the jigsaw to swim faster hopefully will be a result of achieving the first two targets. I am swimming at my home clubs Masters event tomorrow so may see some results based on where I am so far this year. Anyway now for the boring bits. Diet was OK. After my record 5lbs loss last week I managed to stay the same at 15.13. Good to keep it under 16 and not fall down totally. Too many bread based Snacks this week but will be going for a a good diet week starting today. Very good training week, best metres total of the year so far at 14500 over two club sessions and four public lane sessions. Did a little more sprinting this week to try and sharpen up as I have managed to enter all sprint events tomorrow. 100 and 50 free, 50 breast and 50 back. I would really like at least a couple of PB's (post suit). not ready yet to post targets for all to see yet. I feel fairly quick but not showing in competition yet. Away from my favoured events to my devils stroke of breast stroke. I have changed the technique slightly and expect to to get under 40 secs tomorrow for the 50M. I managed a 38.?? with a suit 3 years ago but not broken 40 since. Managed 41.0 for long course at Swansea so fingers crossed. Will blog results early next week (Good or Bad).

Work and training don't mix but does help the diet.

Mrs T asked me to look after the incoming goods warehouse for the week. The only disadvantage (and quite a major one) is that I do not have a fork lift licence. I could though call on guys from the shifts when I needed to off load deliveries or move pallets around. The problem Was that empty and full pallets need moving all the time so I spent a lot of time with a hand pallet truck pulling heavy pallets or moving piles of empty ones around the storage yard. This was excellent excercise but was really hard work for this old man and then of course I decided to try and train in the evenings. Travelled all the way to Gloucester on Tues night for a club session and had to finish the session after 30 mins as my feet and legs were cramping continuously and no amount of steady swimming would work the cramps off. I do think the work helped with some core fitness though. Still managed around 9K in the week, below where I should be but a good on par result. This week also saw me targeting some improved weight loss as I felt recently that I had been slipping away from my healthy diet and eating too many treats and crap. We made two batches of really good vegetable soup which made up my main meal each day (with no bread). Breakfast was a big bowl of porridge . These I found very filling and snacked in-between with fruit and yogurt. Anyway it seems to work and I managed 5lbs loss this week which took me below 16 stone for the first time in At least 25 years. 15.13. Another stone to go and I think I will be fairly happy. Now to see if this weight loss transfers to faster swimming. No competitions this weekend but our own Gloucester's Open Masters Meet next weekend. Will be looking for a fast 100 Free and 50 back. Entries in for the British Masters (LC) at Sheffield this week. Only 4 weeks away.