Cycling to Swimming Lessons

Tom Crispin said:

Regulars of this group may recall that some time ago, certainly over a
year ago, I asked advice about cycling with Year 5 pupils (ages 9 and
10) to their swimming lessons, a distance of about 2 miles (4 miles
return) across south east London.

The project finally started this week, with 28 children escorted to
their swimming lessons by bicycle.

Everything went well.

Get them running back and you're well on the way to having a triathlon
team :-)

--
Brian G
www.wetwo.co.uk

Brian G said:

Tom Crispin said:

Regulars of this group may recall that some time ago, certainly over a
year ago, I asked advice about cycling with Year 5 pupils (ages 9 and
10) to their swimming lessons, a distance of about 2 miles (4 miles
return) across south east London.

Quoted message said:

The project finally started this week, with 28 children escorted to
their swimming lessons by bicycle.

Quoted message said:

Everything went well.

Get them running back and you're well on the way to having a triathlon
team :-)

--
Brian Gwww.wetwo.co.uk

I've heard an Eastern European joke about Poles along those lines:

Whats the Polish triathlon; walk to the swimming pool and cycle home.

I'll get my coat.

Tom Crispin of said:

Regulars of this group may recall that some time ago, certainly over a
year ago, I asked advice about cycling with Year 5 pupils (ages 9 and
10) to their swimming lessons, a distance of about 2 miles (4 miles
return) across south east London.

The project finally started this week, with 28 children escorted to
their swimming lessons by bicycle.

Everything went well.

Glad to hear it.

By coincidence I read the title of your post just after I got back from
cycling to my swimming lesson, so it had me wondering if there was some
special technique you were going to recommend. Cycling to lessons is fine,
I enjoy the lessons but do find that the 4 miles home again seem like hard
work.
--
Steph Peters
Chorlton Wanderers Cycling Group
Monthly slow and easy rides from South Manchester
http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/cycling/chwan.htm

Steph Peters said:

Tom Crispin of said:

Regulars of this group may recall that some time ago, certainly over a
year ago, I asked advice about cycling with Year 5 pupils (ages 9 and
10) to their swimming lessons, a distance of about 2 miles (4 miles
return) across south east London.

The project finally started this week, with 28 children escorted to
their swimming lessons by bicycle.

Everything went well.

Glad to hear it.

By coincidence I read the title of your post just after I got back from
cycling to my swimming lesson, so it had me wondering if there was some
special technique you were going to recommend. Cycling to lessons is fine,
I enjoy the lessons but do find that the 4 miles home again seem like hard
work.

Two of my pupils found it hard work too. They'll be getting the coach
back while I tow their bikes behind mine. Poor me....

In article <[email hidden]>, Steph Peters
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

By coincidence I read the title of your post just after I got back from
cycling to my swimming lesson, so it had me wondering if there was some
special technique you were going to recommend. Cycling to lessons is fine,
I enjoy the lessons but do find that the 4 miles home again seem like hard
work.

Do you put a lot of effort into your lessons? I've been swimming since
my school days, and at university swam 1-2 km most days - living beside
the sports centre helped.

About three years ago I began to swim regularly again, focusing on
improving my technique (I've never had lessons) and these days, 2-4
times a week I do 20 lengths breaststroke, 20-30 of crawl and another 12
or so of kicking with a float.

I seem to swim almost as far as I cycle. My bike ride home is a rather
tame 1.5 miles - the route zig zags through west London streets so I
don't build up a head of steam. And now that the weather has cooled, I
feel quite comfortable.

In summer when I was at my usual pool with a faster route home, I found
it difficult to cool down after swimming and was often still sweating as
I made my breakfast at home.
--
congokid
Eating out in London? Read my tips...
http://congokid.com

congokid of none said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Steph Peters
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

By coincidence I read the title of your post just after I got back from
cycling to my swimming lesson, so it had me wondering if there was some
special technique you were going to recommend. Cycling to lessons is fine,
I enjoy the lessons but do find that the 4 miles home again seem like hard
work.

Do you put a lot of effort into your lessons? I've been swimming since
my school days, and at university swam 1-2 km most days - living beside
the sports centre helped.

I put a lot of effort in for me, mainly trying to improve my technique. When
I started I could do breast stroke but only with my head out of water, and
back stroke. Now I can do the breathing for breast stroke so it's faster,
and achieved my first (50 yard) length of crawl last week. Lessons are only
30 minutes, but I cycle there, so cycling home again at 9pm is hard. And by
that time I'm really hungry for dinner, as I just have something light to
keep me going beforehand. I'm not exhausted but it is noticeably harder in
the homeward direction.

Quoted message said:

About three years ago I began to swim regularly again, focusing on
improving my technique (I've never had lessons) and these days, 2-4
times a week I do 20 lengths breaststroke, 20-30 of crawl and another 12
or so of kicking with a float.

I go 2-3 times per week in addition to the lessons, but don't swim nearly as
far as you. I concentrate on trying to practice what I've learnt in
lessons, and putting in more effort to swim faster, rather than further. The
quieter sessions are early morning before work, afterwards I ride home and
have breakfast so I keep it fairly short in order to arrive at work at a
reasonable hour. However the bike ride is shorter, as I go to the nearer
pool at about 1 mile away (which doesn't offer lessons).

Quoted message said:

I seem to swim almost as far as I cycle. My bike ride home is a rather
tame 1.5 miles - the route zig zags through west London streets so I
don't build up a head of steam. And now that the weather has cooled, I
feel quite comfortable.

I get out on my bike every day. The ride to work is less than a mile, but
it's rare that I do less than 5 miles on a swimming day and usually twice
that on non-swimming days.

--
Steph Peters
Chorlton Wanderers Cycling Group
Monthly slow and easy rides from South Manchester
http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/cycling/chwan.htm