first 100IM......ever. Video posted.

The first words my coach would have said to me were, "Why did you breathe with less than 5 metres to go?" (In my experience there is no correct reply to this question!) In Donald's view the last 5 is where races are lost and won, where records are set or missed. You get into the red float end-zone, you're nearly finished. You can do without that breath 3 - 4 metres from the wall. Drive the last five (that rhymes quite nicely!) and try to push the wall backwards with the force of your finish! The other one would be breathing on first stroke out of the turn on freestyle. You're travelling at your fastest so don't turn your head and break the smooth line of the body. As soon as you turn to breathe you lose all the speed you had when driving off the wall. Turn, drive, streamline (torpedo), glide, kick, stroke, stroke, THEN breathe! It's well worth training yourself until this becomes your natural way to turn. Good swim, by the way, you're MUCH faster than me! Al.

The first words my coach would have said to me were, "Why did you breathe with less than 5 metres to go?" (In my experience there is no correct reply to this question!) In Donald's view the last 5 is where races are lost and won, where records are set or missed. You get into the red float end-zone, you're nearly finished. You can do without that breath 3 - 4 metres from the wall. Drive the last five (that rhymes quite nicely!) and try to push the wall backwards with the force of your finish! The other one would be breathing on first stroke out of the turn on freestyle. You're travelling at your fastest so don't turn your head and break the smooth line of the body. As soon as you turn to breathe you lose all the speed you had when driving off the wall. Turn, drive, streamline (torpedo), glide, kick, stroke, stroke, THEN breathe! It's well worth training yourself until this becomes your natural way to turn. Good swim, by the way, you're MUCH faster than me! Al.