How sick am I????

[Running Mommy]

Funny. I was just talking about going to the TI camp tonight with Tony. It's about 400 clams if I remember correctly for a weekend camp. But I would need the camp. I literally will need someone in the pool with me. I have the book and video. But they haven't helped much. I think I need someone there to manually put me in the correct position so I know what it feels like. I have made some improvements, but I know there is so much more I could do.
So I will prolly haul my butt off to camp sometime in the next 6 months.
You are right about form being everything in swimming though, I'll certainly give you that!

[LittleBlackDuck]

Maybe think of it in another way Denise if you still can't make up your mind which IM to do. Which IM would you regret NOT doing? And like some of the other girls have said, don't limit yourself to just those around you. You could go on vacation AND Ironman .

[Lise]

Funny. I was just talking about going to the TI camp tonight with Tony. It's about 400 clams if I remember correctly for a weekend camp. But I would need the camp. I literally will need someone in the pool with me. I have the book and video. But they haven't helped much. I think I need someone there to manually put me in the correct position so I know what it feels like. I have made some improvements, but I know there is so much more I could do.
So I will prolly haul my butt off to camp sometime in the next 6 months.
You are right about form being everything in swimming though, I'll certainly give you that!

I thought about doing that camp last fall. I feel the same way. If someone manually corrects me, I can remember it. I have to "learn" it with my muscles before my mind gets it. Just haven't been willing to spend the money yet.

[Nanci]

What if your shoulder joints are bad from work, and it's really difficult to freestyle? Do you think learning proper form would help? If I raise my arms just to brush my hair, even, it's snap crackle pop.

Nanci

[Running Mommy]

that just reminded me of something in the race. A guy next to me did the entire race on his back. But he wasn't backstroking. His arms were in the water. So I guess he was doing some sort of scuttle thing?? All I know is everytime I looked up to sight, there he was moving along backwards. It was wierd? But if he stayed w/ me I'm sure he made the cut off. By the time I hit the steps I had lost sight of him though.

[Nanci]

I heard only four people didn't make the swim cut off.

It's easy to swim on your back- I could do that forever.

Nanci

[tprevost]

does anyone have a website for these T1 camps?

T~

[Lise]

It's T-I, as in Total Immersion. I read your post as T-1, as in the first transition! I thought...who needs a camp to learn how to do transition?
But for Total Immersion swimming, we have:
http://www.totalimmersion.net/workshops-p1.html

[DirtDiva]

that just reminded me of something in the race. A guy next to me did the entire race on his back. But he wasn't backstroking. His arms were in the water. So I guess he was doing some sort of scuttle thing?? All I know is everytime I looked up to sight, there he was moving along backwards. It was wierd? But if he stayed w/ me I'm sure he made the cut off. By the time I hit the steps I had lost sight of him though.

It was called "survival backstroke" when I was doing lifesaving awards at highschool. I shoulda kept that up - woulda been a much cooler way to make some money during university holidays than working retail was.