Did you swim today?
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Today: 1.5 miles @ 77 minutes0
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Been swimming, just haven't checked in here. Changed the workout only to finish with breaststroke instead of butterfly. Swimming fly earlier in the session when I have more energy. Swimming slow to iron out technique. Many feel-good laps!
Learning to play tennis with my left hand after a minor right hand accident.
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Back to swimming a bit more now my shoulder is behaving slightly better.
3km Saturday
2km Monday
2km Tuesday
2.5km today
Plan is to keep around that each day this week, then see about getting longer swims next week
And keep stretching and mobilising my shoulder!0 -
Today: 1 mile @ 55 minutes0
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Today: 1 mile @ 52 minutes0
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1600 yards. Carpool ready to go. I'll get my mile Friday.0
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Today: 1 mile @ 52 minutes0
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My gym and pool is closed
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My pool closed yesterday.
Spring conditions have dried the tennis courts, so I'm learning to play left handed. With so many great YouTube channels, I'm having so much fun!
I hit balls with the city park groundskeeper for three hours. I missed a lot of balls, but had a blast!0 -
Like so many others our pool also closed in mid March, so thats ends the Adult Swim club. I was registered for a Bronze medallion Life saver course and that is all cancelled. Some of the small community pools that are only open in the summer probably won't open this year since they can't get the Life guards re-certified now.
Still have over a foot of snow in the forest trails so no running, limited walking due to spring melt creating huge sheets of ice = danger.0 -
YES! 5000 yards, and it killed me and I'm so happy!2 -
Well, they did it. The city pulled the plug on pools for summer
Oh man, I am so bummed. I'm trying to do other stuff, but my one knee that gives me trouble is talking to me. The trails were closed, so that ended our trail runs (I don't run this knee on concrete or asphalt). So it's been long walks, bodyweight stuff, yoga and PT. But nothing, NOTHING, gives me the workout that the pool does. Maybe in fall? 1 -
Who is back in the pool?? Ours opened last Thursday so I am trying to go daily this week to get back into it!0
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Who is back in the pool?? Ours opened last Thursday so I am trying to go daily this week to get back into it!
My pool opened last Wednesday, and I'm up to 35,000 yards AQ (after quarantine). The first day felt like I was swimming through maple syrup. Each day after has been easier.1 -
Who is back in the pool?? Ours opened last Thursday so I am trying to go daily this week to get back into it!
My pool opened last Wednesday, and I'm up to 35,000 yards AQ (after quarantine). The first day felt like I was swimming through maple syrup. Each day after has been easier.
Haha know the feeling. I started back on Thursday and have clocked up 35,400m so far.1 -
What is the protocol at your pools? Mine is at a community center, so the locker room would be impossible for social distancing (swim team, kids' lessons, lap swimmers, fitness classes). I have no idea what they're planning for September, or if they're just putting us off until then.0
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girlwithcurls2 wrote: »What is the protocol at your pools? Mine is at a community center, so the locker room would be impossible for social distancing (swim team, kids' lessons, lap swimmers, fitness classes). I have no idea what they're planning for September, or if they're just putting us off until then.
The rules: Showers are open for swimmers only. The lockers are blocked off. One swimmer per lane. No team or masters swimming. No socializing on the deck. Limit your workout to one hour if there are people waiting to get in. Lifeguards are to wear masks. Maintain a social distancing standard of six feet apart.
How it usually plays out: people who are using the weight room/cardio area usually use the showers (I live close, so I shower at home before I go, and again after I come home, but not at the pool). At least in the men's locker room, people aren't trying to use the lockers. People usually stick to one swimmer per lane, though I have seen three people in one lane from a masters program from a town that's about 30 minutes away. I suppose their pool hasn't opened yet. The youth swim team has been showing up, but I'm usually out before they're in and they swim one per lane. It seems as though I'm the only one not socializing on the deck. There are enough lanes to accommodate the demand for swimmers so that I don't have to limit my workout to an hour. Some of the lifeguards wear masks all the time, some for some of the time, and some don't. People crowd my stuff on the deck, but usually don't come in close contact with me.
I see my masters coach on most days. She's an old friend because we lifeguarded at the pool in our younger days. She told me today that we would be starting up masters next week with some modified rules. I haven't decided yet on whether I'll participate or keep doing my current set, which is:
500 warmup
300 pull
300 kick
400 IM ladder (one lap each in IM order then one lap each in reverse IM order)
300 Back
300 Back pull
300 Back kick
400 IM ladder
300 Breaststroke
300 Breaststroke pull
300 Breaststroke kick
400 IM ladder
300 Free
300 Pull
300 Kick
400 IM ladder0 -
YEAH my poll is open.
Swam past 4 days @ 1 mile each day.0 -
Today 1 mile @ 56 minutes0
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Today; 1 mile @ 52 minutes0
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Today 1 mile @ 52 minutes0
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7,500 yards today. ~ 2hr. 20 min.0
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WOW good swimming!1
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I envy you guys getting your swims in. My knees and hips are aching with all of the walking I have been doing. I'm ready to invest in a water rower. If only I had somewhere to put one... It's cheaper and easier than building an endless pool--my dream!
Keep up the great swims and do a few laps for those of us who can't yet.2 -
The YMCA pool in my town opened June 22. I swam0
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five days. Today I took a break to beef up my blueberry cage against deer, birds and weather0
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Oh no. We just got an email from the mayor. The pool and gym I go to are part of the city's parks and rec. They were already underfunded, but COVID has wiped them out. Every community center across the city is now closed indefinitely. I could look around for another pool to join, but there aren't many, and even worse, they're not affordable. I took up swimming so that if I needed to know how, I would (rehab an injury, arthritis preventing as much running as I want, whatever). I had no idea how much I would enjoy it and how awesome it is as a full body workout. I'm not sure what to do now. I'm a bit at loose ends...
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Today: 1 mile @ 52 minutes0
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Today: 1.5 miles @ 72 minutes0
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girlwithcurls2 wrote: »Oh no. We just got an email from the mayor. The pool and gym I go to are part of the city's parks and rec. They were already underfunded, but COVID has wiped them out. Every community center across the city is now closed indefinitely. I could look around for another pool to join, but there aren't many, and even worse, they're not affordable. I took up swimming so that if I needed to know how, I would (rehab an injury, arthritis preventing as much running as I want, whatever). I had no idea how much I would enjoy it and how awesome it is as a full body workout. I'm not sure what to do now. I'm a bit at loose ends...
That's really sad. Our YMCA pool opened June 22 with serious pandemic defenses, but it's open. Wish you lived here (Aberdeen, Washington)
I hope your town can find the funds to open. After all, they do still have to maintain the pool. Might as well have swimmers.
I swam today. We get 45 minutes. We can sign up at six different times during weekdays, four times Saturday. The population density is pretty low here 31 cases of COVID-19 in this county, but this little virus is really scary.
Sundays, if it isn't raining I paddle my canoe with friends (definitely at least six feet apart)
I don't run. If the pool isn't open or in poor weather, I'll walk 3-7 miles, or just do some house or yard work. Once my phone recorded 20,000 steps for a long day doing the yard
Good luck!0
