Butterfly....

I swim once a week and do a 2 hour set on saturday lunchtime , and in that particular session our lane can be described as a bunch of middle aged female fatties .. with the odd chap thrown in. The next lane to us was always whizzing past. Two years ago we decided to attack fly as a giggle - I can still remember the first set we had- 15 x 25m fly with fins, all done very slowly with big gaps. My heartrate was still elevated at 10pm that night and I was dozing from early evening. We built up gradually and all of us middle aged female fatties can now do 30x 25m without fins. AND now the coach has a lovely problem - we have all improved our fitness so much as a result of the fly that we are swimming on the same times as the next lane up on all strokes ! he is now threatening to merge us into one- to the chagrin of the other lane so please persevere - we started off hanging off the end of the pool gasping and thinking we would have heart attacks after a couple of 25s with fins and have now improved our fly and our fitness in ways we didnt think possible ......

I swim once a week and do a 2 hour set on saturday lunchtime , and in that particular session our lane can be described as a bunch of middle aged female fatties .. with the odd chap thrown in. The next lane to us was always whizzing past. Two years ago we decided to attack fly as a giggle - I can still remember the first set we had- 15 x 25m fly with fins, all done very slowly with big gaps. My heartrate was still elevated at 10pm that night and I was dozing from early evening. We built up gradually and all of us middle aged female fatties can now do 30x 25m without fins. AND now the coach has a lovely problem - we have all improved our fitness so much as a result of the fly that we are swimming on the same times as the next lane up on all strokes ! he is now threatening to merge us into one- to the chagrin of the other lane so please persevere - we started off hanging off the end of the pool gasping and thinking we would have heart attacks after a couple of 25s with fins and have now improved our fly and our fitness in ways we didnt think possible ......