July Swimming

[tribogota]

Wish I was doing OWS like many of you, but yesterday I did 3000m, very happy about that. Got off the crutch this week and did 500 kickboard. The DVT means I cannot go too fast, so I am gonna relearn to swim these 4 months and concentrate on technique. Yesterday I swam with the little plastic stick that I have to change from hand to hand at the top of the stroke...hard but really makes a point.

[Veronica]

Hey! I'm glad to see you posting! I was thinking about you the other day and wondering how your recovery was coming along.

Veronica

[kacie tri-ing]

Good to hear from you!

2800 today :-) I got a couple of new bathingsuits, and they are in the mail. Can't wait!

[OakLeaf]

Tribogota! Great to hear from you. Hope the recovery continues to go well!


For me, today was just about getting more comfortable in the water. Didn't even count laps - did some basic Total Immersion balance drills, swam steady for about half an hour, a couple more drills before I wrapped it up.

It felt good. I was even doing some bilateral breathing which I've really NEVER done. I suppose when I first learned to swim, the instructors would've had me breathe from both sides, but I don't remember ever doing it.

And I hardly swallowed any pool water! If you knew the lake where they're doing the OWS, this is a VERY, VERY important thing to learn.

[roadie gal]

TriB, good going! Glad to hear that you're recovering.

Yesterday I got into Donner Lake for what I hoped was a 40 minute swim. Unfortunately, the wind had kicked up so there were waves on the lake. I bobbed around like a cork on the ocean. Ugh! Nauseating. I did 25 minutes and gave up. I'm going to try again tomorrow.

[GLC1968]

Excellent, tribogota! Welcome back!

Roadie Gal - I had that feeling at last weeks OWS. There were so many boats on the lake that it was rough. I could swim in it, but I was getting really sick to my stomach. It makes me think that I'll never be able to do ocean swims (I'm very prone to motion sickness)!

I swam on Monday - 2000y, my longest swim yet (in a pool). It was super crowded though! I had all my stuff at the end of the lane and was getting in when my cap ripped (like a huge hunk ripped off!), so I had to run into the locker room for a spare. When I got out, three people were getting into my lane (the other person who had been in it had left) with those noodle things. I grabbed my stuff and moved to a different lane and the guy I joined said "man, you got bumped out of the cherry lane? bummer!". I thought that was funny. Anyway, I did my whole workout even though there were people who were waiting. Why none of them asked to join us or any of the other lanes is beyond me. Every lane (except for the noodle lane) had 2 people in it. Of course, half of the people were barely swimming so circle swimming could have been an issue I guess.

I just ordered a replacement cap, a lycra cap and a poly suit. I was seriously over-heating in the pool and I realized that all of my suits are overly baggy in the body. I actually ordered the poly suit in a size that is 3 sizes smaller than my current suits (same brand and style). Yay for weight loss!

Today is OWS after work. I'm excited. I think I now prefer it to the pool swimming!

[Selkie]

TriB - It's great to see that you're back and recovering. If you don't mind my asking, how are they treating your DVT (my husband had a DVT that went to his lungs--close call. Turns out that he has a genetic clotting disorder).

Enjoy your new suits, Kacie and GLC! I scooped up several on sale recently.

Decided to start working with a swim coach because my technique desperately needs help. My first session is Sunday.

[roadie gal]

I went back to the lake yesterday. It was perfect: no wind, no boaters when I first started. I swam 46 minutes, about 1.25 miles (as per Google Earth). It would have been a bit less time except the boaters had started to come out on my way back, so I stopped a few times to sight on them and to make sure they saw me.

The water has gotten warm enough that I'm going to swim in my sleeveless wetsuit instead of the fullsuit next time.

[tribogota]

Selkie:
am on 2.5 mg of warfarin every day, THAT is the extent of the treatment so far. Supposedly I get a doppler next month, but I can already tell that it is NOT cleared up from the last one (deep vein completely blocked), I can tell, cause when I swim fast instead of steady and long, my leg throbs and turns purple, also when I sit with it unelevated. Not sure there is any other treatment besides warfarin....
Am walking about 20 minutes a day and spinning 20 mins, plus the swim, and the DVT seems fine when I do that.
My DVT is most probably not genetic and was caused by the impact and trauma to the hip/femur.

[Selkie]

Tri -- My husband's clot took a long time to go away, too, and he was hospitalized, on a heparin drip and prior to that, he was doing lovamox shots into his belly (the last did no good in preventing the Pulmonary Embolism). Because the clot was so resistant and they wanted him out of the hospital, they put an IVC filter in near his kidney, in case more pieces broke off from the clot or it moved.

It took them awhile to get my husband's INR level "therapeutic" for the warfarin. According to my DH, they have you on a low dose of cumadin -- he takes twice that amount daily to keep him clot free. Of course, he's a big boy. ;-)

Thank God your clot is a result of the trauma and not due to a genetic flaw. Warfarin scares the bejesus out of me. Sending you lots of clot dissolving karma!

[Bike Chick]

Tribogota, it's so good to see you posting again and I'm glad that you are starting back with training. Best wishes to you in your recovery!