Can't make it too easy

What to do when your training schedule is just falling into a nice rhythm and things are working well? Change it all of course. Obviously.

The catalyst for all this is that I was speaking to Paul Newsome from Swim Smooth last week about progressing my swimming. He suggested that the Wednesday morning session that they do would probably benefit me more than the Tuesday morning session that I have been going to. Great to hear. Certainly better than, 'sorry there is nothing we can do for you, have you considered knitting instead'. But of course making it to the Wednesday morning session means rearranging pretty much every other session. Hmmmm, annoying.

I went to Daryl last week to see if such a rearranging is possible, which, displaying the infinite patience of an experienced coach, he has tried to do. Neither he nor I am sure whether this new schedule will work, so we have decided to give it two weeks to find out. If, after two weeks, it just isn't fitting together we will go back to what we have been doing. As he sucintinly put it in an e-mail, 'I am loathe to tinker with something that is apparently working, but this may be even better'. One way to find out. Plus now, with seven weeks until my next race, is probably a good time to give it a go.

On another topic, I may have been a little hasty in pre-emptively awarding Chris Froome the win in the Tour de France yesterday. As the stage last night demonstrated, Team Sky in 2013 is not the team they were in 2012. I think he is still probably the strongest cyclist out there, and if he doesn't win, I am not sure who is capable of stepping up to knock him off. But this tour could be more interesting than I first thought. I also mentioned yesterday that it would be exciting to see just where Richie Porte ended up in the overall standings. A fair way down it would seem. Oh well, I still think he has an interesting future ahead of him.

All up it seems that it is a pretty good time to be a British sports fan. Hopefully they have a little less to cheer about during the Ashes tour that starts soon, but like most Australians I am not hopeful.