Catch a wave...Or the swimming thread

[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....