Best swim ever today - managed to swim 2 miles in 63 minutes. Only 3 minutes to shave off this to reach the target I set myself a year ago.

@ Panda - Great job, those 3 minutes will be gone in no time!!!!!

Swam today for the first time since twisting me knee up pretty good a week & a half ago. It's been improving steadily, so I gave it a try today. A little rusty, but shook most of that off. Freestyle was ok, even kicking, but flip turns are still out (for now) & I didn't try the other strokes yet. I'll try them later on today, just wanted to see what I was able to do while I had the chance to get laps in......

Hey Macstraw. Sorry to hear about your knee. Knees are my downfall. Both had cartilage removed and orthpedist says knee replacement in my future. Trying to make it til I get medicare. I have a question for my open swim on Sunday the 10th. I don't know how much to warm up. I know what I do in the pool but don't seem to get my groove until about 1/4 the way into my mile. Anyone else can add their 10cents ( inflation) also.

Thanks, Holly - I was aggravated because that was the knee I hadn't injured before (dislocated the other one twice as a teenager & had a minor partial tear in the meniscus a few years ago - the orthopedist who replaced my hips said he'd have a relationship with my knee in the future). Seems to be good, I tested the other strokes briefly this afternoon & it seems to be OK so I'll try doing more on Wednesday & I'm gonna try to get back to walking tomorrow morning......

As for the warm-up for the OW swim, I don't have any real experience in them so I'll leave it for those who have done them to give you specifics. I will, however, be thinking of you on Sunday & wishing you the best of luck.......

Recovered from flu!
Good to be back in the pool!
Back to the usual - 2.4 km mostly in I.M.
About 80 to 85 min!

Thanks, Panda - I am taking it easy as I work back into things. I did a mile walk this morning instead of my usual 3-4 & seem to have recovered well from it (I was even able to do some yard work this afternoon with no issues) & I had no trouble walking back & forth coaching swim practice tonight. The only swimming I did today was a little bit of fly & breast to make sure things are still OK (they are) & try a few flip turns (that went OK, but I'll see how I do when I get my swim in tomorrow). The plan for tomorrow is to do what I was doing before I twisted the knee, it's a fairly light workout as it is & I will knock off if I have any issues at all - I'd rather miss a short time than really hurt myself.....

Yep I swam today. The frist time I got 2.1K in 65 min. Not a speed demon but made me happy.

Thanks, Panda. Luckily it seems to be all healed up - I was able to do flip turns & my normal work today, including all the strokes. I don't do a lot of breaststroke so I'm not kicking too much. If I have any lingering issues I will try to change, but if it stays OK I want to try to stay on top of the proper form.....

Yeah, again, that's three days in a row... Leslie pushed us today too. But I will be there tomorrow! :happy:

Glad to hear the knee is good Macstraw.

Swam today and pushed myself on fly - I still can not manage to do more than one length at a time, but on the plus side I no longer need to break for a minute to get my breath back either. So this morning consisted of 10 sets of 8xcrawl, 1xfly, 1xback with no breaks. Then finished off with a nice leisurely breaststroke.

I'm new to this group! Hi!

I did not swim today as I had what seemed to me as a mild chlorine reaction yesterday after swimming. I bought a natural vaseline-like lotion to prevent it from happening next time but forgot it at home this morning! I want to try it out tomorrow and see if it helps with preventing a future reaction.

I did not swim today, after five consecutive days of it. Plan to go back tomorrow, though.

I swam open water today. It was a fantastic experience. And no flip turns made it so liberating!

I second Macstraw!

I used to get such bad shoulder pain from my swimming sessions (I incorporate alot of butterfly in my work outs), that it would put me out for months!
The pain would make even every day tasks close to impossible!

Anyway, long story short, I discovered these exercises (http://youtu.be/tP7fV_d7cDQ) similar to the ones in Macstraw's link, and I have never had to stop exercise due to shoulder injury ever again!

I tend to do a number of them as warm ups in the changing room before my swim!

I'm pretty sure they or those from the usaswimming link earlier will help!

If it wasn't for those exercises, I doubt I would be swimming today!

:-)

YES 2 miles @ 81 min.