Catch a wave...Or the swimming thread

[Miranda]

I've been making the pool twice a week thus far. I figured out the distance with the pool length and laps. Each time I've done a little over a half mile.

The pool has a record keeping box for the swimmers to log their laps. I officially started myself a card.

At the end of the year, they post the swimmers accomplishments. I think it will help with my motivation to stick with the pool. It will be interesting how far I've swam by the end of the year!

[eclectic]

I thought I had posted this but in my frozen January brain I don't think I did. Fogive me if it is redundant.

As I mentioned before I swim in the morning w/ Dagny Knudson. ANYWAY since she was at the PanPacifics in Guam in Jan and broke records and won many golds she is now being touted as the fastest under 17 female swimmer in the WORLD ! ! !

Last week a trainer from USA swimming in Colorado springs came up to see how she was training and what she was doing differently to drop that many seconds.

. . . . . and to think I choke on the water she swims in

[kelownagirl]

Anyone ever had an allergic reaction after swimming?

The last two times I went this week, I began sneezing and had itchy watery eyes and nose for about 16 hours after. The first time I thought I was getting a cold but it disappeared the next day. The second time I made the connection to the pool. I called the YMCA to see if they'd changed chemicals or anything and they admitted they were having some trouble with the chlorine dispenser. This last bout was enough to make me think twice about going back but I have to. I may call first before I go. Hope it's not a lasting thing. Has it happened to anyone else??

[colby]

Anyone ever had an allergic reaction after swimming?

The last two times I went this week, I began sneezing and had itchy watery eyes and nose for about 16 hours after. The first time I thought I was getting a cold but it disappeared the next day. The second time I made the connection to the pool. I called the YMCA to see if they'd changed chemicals or anything and they admitted they were having some trouble with the chlorine dispenser. This last bout was enough to make me think twice about going back but I have to. I may call first before I go. Hope it's not a lasting thing. Has it happened to anyone else??

I always get the sneezies after swimming and can taste the chlorine as it drains. I use a sinus rinse/wash afterward and it really helps. My skin itches, my eyes itch, my whole sinus/nasal passages itch. The sinus rinse makes a big difference to the sneezing and dried out feeling - it feels like everything sticks in my sinuses and bothers them, until I rinse at what point I swear the saline stuff goes in but doesn't all come out (I MUST be really dried out). At this point, I swim twice a week at most, which is enough for me, even if it's not "to plan" (3x/week).

Didn't think to ask if they could adjust the chemical level. Family swim and swim team and all the fitness classes are done in the same pool, so I guess they are worried about germies.

[kelownagirl]

I always get the sneezies after swimming and can taste the chlorine as it drains. I use a sinus rinse/wash afterward and it really helps. My skin itches, my eyes itch, my whole sinus/nasal passages itch. The sinus rinse makes a big difference to the sneezing and dried out feeling - it feels like everything sticks in my sinuses and bothers them, until I rinse at what point I swear the saline stuff goes in but doesn't all come out (I MUST be really dried out). At this point, I swim twice a week at most, which is enough for me, even if it's not "to plan" (3x/week).

Didn't think to ask if they could adjust the chemical level. Family swim and swim team and all the fitness classes are done in the same pool, so I guess they are worried about germies.

Thanks for the feedback - I'm going to try the rinse next time. I had a good shower and washed and conditioned my hair and hubby said I still smelled like chlorine that night.

I've been swimming at this pool for a year and have never had the problem. That's why I asked them if they had changed anything.

[Pax]

KG - I had the same problem last week after my swim, I hopped into the nearby hot tub and after the initial "ahhhhhhh moment" I realized the chemicals were way off...it was like stewing in a chlorine pot. I felt like crap when I got home, I took a hot shower, washed my hair, and used a ton of saline nasal spray to rinse my sinuses. Nothing like having the thing we do to stay fit & healthy make us feel cruddy.

[Wahine]

I always have a problem with chlorine. I used to take a pre-emptive antihistamine before swimming but then I started using a nose plug and that takes care of it most of the time.

I'm pretty sure I smell like chlorine almost always.

[HillSlugger]

KG - I had the same problem last week after my swim, I hopped into the nearby hot tub and after the initial "ahhhhhhh moment" I realized the chemicals were way off...it was like stewing in a chlorine pot. I felt like crap when I got home, I took a hot shower, washed my hair, and used a ton of saline nasal spray to rinse my sinuses. Nothing like having the thing we do to stay fit & healthy make us feel cruddy.

That's part of why I don't do the hot tub. The temperature makes them terrible breeding grounds for germs so they need to chlorine the life out of them It hurts my eyes. I perpetually smell like chlorine just from 2x swimming. I don't need the extra dose from the tub