The PoolMate is Awesome!

Being a 'Finance Guy' I do love a good spreadsheet...so when I bought my Poolmate swimming watch I couldn't help but come up with a few graphs and trackers to monitor my performance.  Here's a graph of the last 7 Swim's I've done:

The key metrics I'm looking to improve are my efficiency (the red line), and my distance per swim (the green column) relative to the total time it takes me to swim it (blue line).  I'm pretty stoked with the general trend here, with greater distances being covered in less time with more efficiency.

There are a few short pre-work swims there which stick out as outliers, but over the coming three weeks I'll be trying to have all swims around the 2.5k mark.

I'd definitely recommend getting one of these watches if you're training.  The Poolmate pro is about £60 and is well worth it for the motivation it gives you!

First Race:
My first race is two weeks from this Sunday in Poole.  My new 2XU wetsuit arrived last week so I'm going to head to one of the larger lido's in London this week to test it out.  I need to get used to swimming without walls, which I'm thinking I'll enjoy as I'll be able to get into a rhythm.

Wish me luck!!