He has also provided a different kind of swimming training session. Now, instead of swimming continuously for over an hour to complete Ironman distance (or more – my longest swim is 5,500m), I am required to complete “sets” at certain speeds, depending on the distance and goal of the session. This has reaped clear benefits for me as, where once I regarded swimming 200m in under 2 minutes as a huge achievement, I can now consistently and continuously swim full kilometres in under 20 minutes. This has enabled me to reduce my Ironman swim time expectations quite significantly. All of this planning and analysis is done from distance, with Andy situated in the North of England, and me in sunny (!) South Wales, and this is where the Garmin statistics and Training Peaks tool have really been of most use.