Catch a wave...Or the swimming thread

[alpinerabbit]

Re: fogging, do you lick your goggles before putting on? Alternatively, rub the inside w/dishwashing liquid (just don't do both )

The licking did not help with the OW swim in my first tri though.

The headache - goggles too tight or digging into your eyesockets, or putting undue pressure somewhere?

[Kimmyt]

I've always noticed I get headaches when I put my goggles on too tight. I tend to do this whenever we do block starts in class because I can never seem to hit the water right to keep my goggles on. My aquasphere ones are a bit harder to crank down and the soft plastic on the outside doesn't hurt my eye socket as much. I used to get headaches allthe time with my old speedo goggles that had hard plastic rims and thin straps.

I had a breakthrough session last night. Coach had us doing IMs all class, which usually I hate.

wu: 200 swim, 100 pull, 100 kick
sets: 4x100 IM w/fins
1x50 kick choice no fins
3x100 IM w/fins
2x50 kick choice no fins
2x100 IM w/fins
3x50 kick choice no fins
1 x 100 IM w/fins
4x50 kick choice no fins
(all of these with ~ 20 RI)
then we had Cinco de Mayo relay games.

Basically, I want to get a pair of zoomers. I used the big old doofy fins that they had in the closet. I did the first 4x100 IM and felt FAST. Of course, since I had fins. But my ankles also got sore because of the pressure the long fins put on them. So I took them off. The rest of class, my form was just beautiful. I wasn't feeling winded even after butterfly. I could FEEL my stroke so much more in the water. Just 400 with fins helped me feel my positioning so much better. A friend even commented on it, saying that I really looked like I was stretching out in the water reen:. Also, once I took them off I felt like I still had them on, I could feel my ankles and my feet flexing like mini fins, and propelling me through the water. It was really awesome. So they're on my list of things to get. I don't want to use them alot, because I don't want to injure myself or use them as a crutch, but I think they'd be useful once in a while to work on my form.

[KSH]

Goggles fogging up? I put just a tab bit of water in my goggles when I swim. When they fog up, I shake my head and the fog is gone. It sounds odd, but if you get just the right amount in the goggles it won't bother you when you swim and it will clean the goggles.


I switched to a new swim program this week. Well, I tried to.

I went to the pool on Monday morning. Hhhuuummm... no roof on the pool. Ok. That could be fine. Hhhuuummmm... the water is not heated. NOT GOOD.

The air temperature was 65 degrees.

What the heck were they thinking?

I got in up to my waist, and got out and went to the gym to swim.

I'll go back when it's warm outside and the pool has had time to warm up.

[HillSlugger]

I went to the pool on Monday morning. Hhhuuummm... no roof on the pool. Ok. That could be fine. Hhhuuummmm... the water is not heated. NOT GOOD.

The air temperature was 65 degrees.

What the heck were they thinking?

I got in up to my waist, and got out and went to the gym to swim.

I'll go back when it's warm outside and the pool has had time to warm up.

Don't you want to practice with your wetsuit?!?

[KSH]

Don't you want to practice with your wetsuit?!?

Oh trust me, the thought crossed my mind already. If it wasn't such a pain to push off the walls in it, I would totally do it.

[alpinerabbit]

Goggles fogging up? I put just a tab bit of water in my goggles when I swim.

Not me. Contact lenses and generally that would annoy the heck out of me and get my eyes all red.

[KSH]

Not me. Contact lenses and generally that would annoy the heck out of me and get my eyes all red.

Ah... yea, that plan would not work for you.

[rocknrollgirl]

Yee Haa baby....

Today was a planned pool workout, and all day long my students kept telling me how nice it was outside. I have no windows in my classroom, so I was clueless. I had been in since 6:30 am. So I figured...today might be the day, OWS.

I emailed DH and told him I wanted to go. He was not available to be my swim buddy and voiced his opinion that he did not want me to go alone. Noted and ignored honey!

I ran home after school and did a partial wetsuit wiggle, into the bottom half and drove the 7 mins to the lake. We have access to swim on a small, spring fed private lake in our town. It is really nice.

I got down on the dock and the wind was blowing pretty hard. I looked up and down and said...dang, was the lake this big last year?


I had a thermometer with me, just for bragging rights, but I could not get an accurate reading. It was cold, but not unbearable. A big gasp when the suit filled, but no loss of feeling or coordination in the extremities. So I put it at about 65 degrees or so.

I decided since I was alone to do a perimeter swim. Great idea from a safety standpoint, but it brought me in to the striking zone for two very, very large snapping turtles, that were sunning themselves near the edge of the lake. They scare me, alot. I figured that in my wetsuit, maybe I looked like a huge snapping turtle to them. I hope.

It was a bit tough coming back in to the wind, but it was fun. I swam about 40 mins. I would have done a bit more if DH had been along, but at the end, I was getting a little tired. Not like I am going to sink in my wetsuit. I float like a butterball in that sucker!

So all in all, a successful first venture in to the murky depths....