It has been two weeks since the Swimming Team training sessions began. I have found that after I stopped training with my swimming team outside school, I have seriously lost endurance. Yet, during Interhouse Swimming heats last Thursday, I attained personal best times in both 50m freestyle (26.73s) and 50m butterfly (30.44), with an A-grade (age 16-19) school record in the freestyle over the previous mark of 26.89 set about 20 years ago, which was a _very_ pleasant surprise.
Today, I swam in the ESF Swimming Gala, where I improved my 50m butterfly time again to 30.26 seconds. Although compared to the swimmers i raced against today, I am still about half a second slower, it is a fantastic achievement for me personally to have been able to lower my time from 32 last year to 30 this year. My aim now is to increase the volume of training I do at school in order to improve my endurance and break the 30-second barrier at HKSSF swimming next month; that should allow me to get an ok place at the Finals of that event, according to the past results.
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