PAUL EAGLESTONE
Coach Paul Eaglestone has put his winning formula into print.His new book, Free Speed is out now, we find out why readers will love it
Tell us about your new book and why we will love it?
It’s written with triathletes in mind, but there is something for everyone. I wrote the book mainly for self-trained athletes. I tend to see, especially older athletes, go to a pool and focus on distance rather than quality. I always feel that one of my jobs as a coach is to make swimmers think about what they are doing and why. It covers technique and efficiency, but also how to train. Open water swimmers can learn and use tools and techniques in a pool environment which are transferable to outdoors, like how to use stroke count as a metric and how to reach a goal or target time by breaking it down into small chunks and adapting to pace over shorter intervals.