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There's been over 100 posts in this thread since the last time I even looked at it. I've been busy and, before todayy, hadn't been in the water since the previous friday. Today I swam a 1.5 race - in calm, pool like conditions and warmth for once. It was great. 33minutes and change. Only bad note is I had a sudden drop in…

Great job Gutzy, and Laura! I showed up for the race yesterday - the water temperature was 50f, or 10c. They changed it so you could do 500m or 1k (instead of 3.8k) - I did 200m and said 'forget this'. I swim for fun. That was not fun. But the race served its purpose - I have increased my swimming fitness and not dropped…

Her 1500m swim time is literally twice as fast as mine. I might cry.

Alarm didn't go off this morning, so I missed coaching. :( Went down to the lake after work, and managed half an hour of sprints (work involved 2.5 hours of walking today, so it wasn't surprising that I was so tired). I'm doing my 3.8k race on Saturday morning. I do not feel prepared. Many things have gotten in the way of…

10k?! Wow!!! Awesome work!! Thursday was open water coaching. 1h One other person didn't have a wetsuit, though she normally does, so I want the only 'naked' swimmer. It was encouraging to me - I always feel so slow at these practices, but without a wetsuit we were close in speed. Yesterday was a beach day. I spent…

My coach has had us do 'dolphin dives' to try and see how far we could go. I was rubbish at the dives. I can swim 25m without a breath though - I occasionally do wind sprints to practice. I have to go really really fast on front crawl to do it.

hehe. I haven't sung along yet at the pool, which certainly would be a good way to drown. I am the woman in the grocery store isles whose singing along with the radio, though. :tongue:

I couldn't get rid of that break until I added in flip turns. Which are a pain in the butt to learn, and kind of embarrassing to practice if anyone is around, but worth it in the end.

I've had that happen so often. I don't want to go. I tell myself I'm gonna swim for 10 minutes, whether I want to or not. An hour later, I don't want to get out.

Waiting for Stephen to show up - his story is great for encouraging newbies around here. :) Swimming can be more intense than running! Front crawl does burn more than breast, as a general rule, but if you push yourself hard you can get your heart rate really high no matter what stroke you're doing. Try doing 'sprints'…

I love this idea. Of course, I still have to 'sing' the alphabet to find the next letter if I'm going through it slowly. I'd probably lose track faster that way.

3000m in 75 minutes! Woo, long distance. And a third of that was with paddles so my arms are a little on the burny side right now.

The Lake on Thursday morning. It's pretty, even if it is far too early in the morning.

Way to go Curly! It's great the first time you can swim a long distance! Yesterday morning was open water practice. We were doing a lot of technique work, which was great. Not sure on distance, about 75 minutes. Today I planned to swim 3km in ladder sets (100, 200, 300 etc). At the halfway mark I started to feel nauseous.…

One thing I did when first learning backstroke, that was more about getting the "s" shape under the water but helped me stay in a straight line, was using the lane rope. When doing the bottom part of the "S" shape I'd grab hold of the rope and push myself along. It forces you to swim right by the line.…

1km for about 22 minutes. My arm is sore from yesterday because I used the paddles a lot.

Like you, my strength is definitely my weakest point. I can do the proper stroke - slowly (52 strokes/min is my go-to speed). But if I speed it up, or do long distances, I get tired and my elbow drops or I don't finish the stroke. And pushing harder means that my stroke per length goes way down (when I am focusing on this,…

Today is my 27th birthday, so I swam 2.7km. :) 50m pool. Gosh, I didn't realize how warm pools were. Much warmer than lake ontario, at any rate.

Spent the last week being sick/dealing with life. I'm planning on going swimming every day this week. I need to get back in the groove before the August 8th race I am apparently doing (whose clever idea was that???) 30 minutes at the lake today - they said it was a 500m course, but it felt longer. I'm gonna guess 1200m…

I thought I was really good at swimming in a straight line - people even complimented me when I did backstroke - but then I got in the open water...

My stroke rate is pretty low - my comfortable rate is 52/min, and my work hard/goal one is 60. The way he explained it was that I need to build the strength to get the power so that I can keep the faster rate while still having good form. I've looked at the finis tempo before. Don't think I need it quite yet - I am pretty…

Open water practice - 75 minutes, no idea on distance. I felt cruddy today, though. Not sure why. Coach is suggesting I do dryland to build strength faster (do not have enough to maintain a strong pull for long distances)- I was doing some bodyweight, but then I stopped (I really don't like strength training). Oh well,…

Awesome work!

W00t! Welcome back to chlorine land!

Thursday mornings for Open water coaching I've taken to having toast with peanut-butter and a glass of milk - I can prepare that half asleep and eat it in the car. And my coach made sure to tell us that we should have a small meal before coming, even though it is an ungodly hour to be eating.

20 minutes today at the lake. I was planning on more, but my 6.5 hour hike yesterday tired me out more than I thought.

Awesome Bruce! Glad you got to get back in the water. 50 minutes (guessing) in Lake Ontario this morning. The course was apparently 500m, and I did it four times. 16c, but at least the air was nice (20c when we got out).

2.5k open water in 75 minutes. I don't know how you early morning swimmers do it regularly - when I go swimming in the morning, I spend the whole day tired and hungry.

I've only used the gps, but it does claim to be treadmill compatable. Personally, I don't see why you'd want to use a treadmill - running outside makes it more fun.

Thanks guys! It was really cold (13c air temp, 16c water temp). Also really wavy (1.25m waves, apparently). But it wasn't raining (in that brief window of time). And it was fun! But I just checked the results so I could share my time (40:42 for 1.5k), and I was actually on the leader board (3rd for no-wetsuit women! 7th…