Did you swim today?
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Hello everyone - have been off the boards for a couple of days as had friends over for the weekend, but on the plus side they were late risers so I was still able to fit in swims on Saturday and Sunday morning. Did swim again this morning but was very sluggish - too much of a good weekend methinks!0
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Poldhu Cove, Cornwall, UK. 45 minutes, breaststroke and front crawl. 17degC - tropical for UK!0
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Do you belong to a masters swim program. I did the 2 mile postal swim last year in about the same time.0
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Yes, I did swim today and I'm hoping to make some MFP swim friends. I'm still very much a beginner swimmer. Today for the first time I was able to do 75 yards nonstop a few times; previously 50 was my limit. Trying to build up those lungs and that endurance!
I also swim with long-blade fins, which my Intermediate Swim instructor recommended to correct my spazzy kick from the knee and feet. It's so frustrating correcting it. Now with the fins I kick from the hip, but if I take them off I revert to that spazzy kick -- it's all energy burn and little else.
So I just did some reading online, and it looks like the next step might be to graduate to short-blade fins, which are supposed to help me learn the right cadence for freestyle kicking.
I only recently got the hang of the backstroke, and I'm slow with it. And only graduated to the deep end about 6 weeks ago. But I love swimming and I'm going to keep plugging away at it! Excited to find this group and meet any new buddies.0 -
Back in the water tomorrow! (if I post I'm going it means I have to go)
8:45 AM workouts are not working out that good for me.
Someone kick me into the water!0 -
I'll kick you ConnieKat - get back in that water!
In the pool again this morning. Had a nice 15 minutes in a lane to myself so focused on butterfly - I still can't manage more than 1 length (20m) at a time, but also noticed this morning that as I was getting more tired the kicks were getting out of sync. Will focus on that (if there's pool space) tomorrow. Rest of swim was my normal mix.0 -
I did for the first time in about 2 weeks. I felt really out of shape so I kind of took it easy and focused more on technique than I normally do, especially stroke count. Averaging about 28 strokes per 50 yards of freestyle and 16 for butterfly.0
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Swam laps today for the first time in 16 years!
I swam for my school team all through middle and high school. Wasn't fast enough to compete in college, so I just kinda let it go. But I got bit by the bug this summer while goofing off in the pool-I really missed it!
So I found a local community pool with lap hours and went. At first my body was like "hello? WTF are you doing?". But by the end it felt great. I am REALLY out of shape for this type of activity though. Swim a length, ( it was a 50m pool) stop, catch breath, do it again. No flip turns. No fly. But alas, I shall get there. Flip turns used to be my favorite part!
Overall, sooo glad to get back in the pool. I intend to make this a once a week thing until summer ends, then I'll need to find an indoor pool.0 -
Here is my workout this morning
300 swim
200 kick
6x75 ( 50 free, 25 breast)working on distance per stroke with free and breast. Long glides but not tooooo long!
8x50. Odds are free, breathing 3/4 and 4/5, evens are breast stroke with a dolphin kick.
6x50 25 breast, 25 free....alternate between fast breast and fast free
200 nice and easy
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Swam consecutive days for the first time in a long while. Did 3,500 yards. I plan to keep it going.0
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Whew, finally got my bum in the pool today. Had some serious motivation problems last couple of weeks.
about 50 minutes, probably around 1400 Y, I lost count half ways through. I did about three sets of 5x50 build with drills and stretching between them.
I pooped out quicker then I planed, probably because I was trying to watch the form on the 50's and that takes more effort.
Couple days of rest before I go again.0 -
Back in the pool this morning (skipped yesterday). Decided to focus on everything but crawl so it was 20 mins of fly drills, then mixed breaststroke and backstroke drills finishing with a leisurely 200m of crawl.0
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Whew, finally got my bum in the pool today. Had some serious motivation problems last couple of weeks.
about 50 minutes, probably around 1400 Y, I lost count half ways through. I did about three sets of 5x50 build with drills and stretching between them.
I pooped out quicker then I planed, probably because I was trying to watch the form on the 50's and that takes more effort.
Couple days of rest before I go again.
Well done conniekat - we knew you'd get back in there! And you know it's going to get better the mmore you go
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Swam almost 1 hour lastnight before the Y closed - all the lifeguards kept standing/playing around like "go home already" LOL1
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Yes, I am back 2 miles @ 76 min.0
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Third day in a row! Did a distance freestyle set. 5,200 yards. I needed that!0
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swam at the dive centre beeautiful
3 x 500m laps then lots of splashing around while the kids jumped off the deck0 -
did AquaFit shallow, then AquaFit deep back to back. Walk to & from pool0
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After 3 days unable to get to the pool it was nice to be back. Just did 2km crawl and a couple of cool down laps to finish. Feeling good.0
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I just bought: 'Finis Swimmer's Snorkel' by FINIS www.amazon.com
Go Pink! Join us in the fight against breast cancer with the FINIS Swimmer's Snorkel - Pink.
And a pretty pink long haired swim cap
I'm going to look like a pink SNORK Lol. :bigsmile:1
