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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Dec 28, 2012
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Time-Trial

Or, to make it really scary:

The next time you get in the pool we want you to swim a 400m Time-Trial


You've only read three lines of this blog post but we bet you are already hatching an excuse for not doing this. Perhaps you're not fit enough, or your stroke technique isn't good enough yet or there's no point at your age?

In fact time-trials ar…

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