Finswimming in Esporta and Anton's first finswimming session

I have signed up for membership with Esporta. This will allow me to train more often for less money. also the club is next door to my office, so I can enjoy lunchtime training sessions. Also, this gives me an opportunity to train my 7yo son into finswimming on the sessions which I've booked a lane for in the leisure centre. I've taken Anton for this session for the first time and I was really impressed with him. Apart of this I've done 50m in 23s

New results

New results from today's session:

200m 2:06s
50m 23s
25m apnea 10s

Result for 200m is quite weak. May be it was down to wrong effort distribution. I wasn't tired at the end of distance. But this is the first time I tried this distance since I've resumed my training. I guess there is a room for significant improvement

Further progress!...

Now I've managed to make 100m in 52s. This is further improvement over my previous result. Also, I made 50m in 23s.

The second 50m on 100 were much weaker, so focus for the further training sessions should be on training endurance. Also, it would be nice to reintroduce running exercises 3-5 minutes for a full speed.

New personal best!...

I've improved my last achievement on 100m by 2s. Now it is 54s :-) Slowly but surely I will get there! :-)

Another training session

Today I've tried my new homemade snorkel. It was much better than my other wobbly one. I was able to make turns and snorkel stayed where it supposed to stay.

Also I was able to check my time today. Thanks to water proof watch I bought recently.
Honestly time wasn't impressive:

100m 56s

I know, it is far away from my results of 44s 20 years back. But this is a start.

25m apnea was 11s. Which is probably not that bad bearing in mind that I made low start and was messing with watch buttons on the finish.

So, for the future sessions working on technique and making my feet used to the monofin.

My homemade snorkel

I was looking for the place to buy a snorkel for a finswimming. I even bought one which looked alright on a web site but was almost useless for swimming. Eventually I decided to go down the old style route. I decided to make it myself. I bought 2 metres of 25mm conduit in B&Q cut off the appropriate piece, stuffed it with sand, heated and bended in several places. This one more usable to me than my previous one.

Results from my last official competition

While I was on holidays I have recovered my results from the latest competitions dated 11-14th of April 1991.

Individual:
400m surface: 3:45.17
800m surface: 8:03.72
1500m surface: 15:20.80

As part of relay team:
4x100m surface: 3:08.50
4x200m surface: 7:08.60

Now compare these results to current British records ;)