He admitted it was running out by the time he claimed his second title of the Scottish Gas National Short Course Championships last night but Robbie Renwick believes he has been given a huge energy boost by his switch to the University of Stirling.

The 26-year-old readily admits to having had a disappointing time of things at what was his home pool of Tollcross in the summer, in spite of winning a third successive silver medal as part of the 4x200m freestyle relay team and believed a change was required to salvage what remains of his career.

"I didn't really want to let it affect me too much," the 200 metre individual freestyle gold medallist in Delhi said of his latest Games experience.

"For me I see it that I've got two years left and I want to give it one final push so I'm really glad I moved to Stirling and I'm having a lot more fun with my swimming than I ever have.

"I'm really enjoying training and I've kind of got the love for the sport back."

Reflecting on what happened at the Games he believes, in hindsight, that he overdid it in terms of work-load while paying insufficient attention to some of the finer points.

"I'd lost my way in the last year or so when I just got carried away with training really hard all the time," Renwick admitted.

"I thought that was the best thing to do for me, but I really wasn't doing myself any justice. I wasn't addressing my skills and my race plan wasn't very good. That's why I got the results I did at the Commonwealth Games, so I knew I had to change something."

Since Ben Higson, one of the coaches at Stirling, is a long-standing personal friend the solution proved relatively straightforward and he reckoned he could have gone even better.

"I was racing in America last weekend so I'm really tired today. If that race was at the start of the week I know I would have gone faster, but it caught up to me a bit today," he said after tying for first place with Welshman Calum Jarvis in the 200 metre freestyle last night, having set a new national record in the 100 metre freestyle on Saturday.

Benson, another who recently moved to Stirling, also enjoyed an excellent meet, adding the 200 metres breaststroke title last night to his victory in the 100 metre race on Saturday.

Hannah Miley meanwhile continued to pile up national titles, winning the 400 metres individual medley impressively and finishing as first Scot in the 200 metres freestyle.

Of the emerging talent 17-year-old Kathleen Dawson demonstrated her quality by matching her achievement in the 200 metres back-stroke when she set new national records in both the heats and the final in the 100 metres event yesterday, while 16-year-old Craig McLean added to the brace of Scottish junior records he set on Friday with a third in the 100 metres freestyle last night.