OK, definitely getting one of them. I could have done with it this morning - as I'm off work this week, there were no time constraints, so aimed for 100 lengths...
Not sure how many lengths I actually did. Once I'd counted 100, I did six more - a) just to make sure, in case I'd over-counted, and b) to round off my time in the pool to exactly an hour. Pretty pleased with that.
I've never really considered stroke count before but I did this morning. On crawl, I was averaging around 20 strokes per length, but with quite a lot of variation, which suggests my technique is perhaps not as good as I thought. That's interesting. Thing is, I don't really know what I should be aiming for, what counts as a good number of strokes per length, whether a higher or lower number is better...
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