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I never really had a problem with water up my nose doing freestyle. I just exhale out my nose hard when I'm upside down. The hardest thing for me to learn was not slamming into the bottom of the pool at the shallow end. (I swim in a pool with a 3'3" shallow end.) I lost a lot of elbow skin until I got better. I never have…

1750 in 39:20. Broke 40 minutes with gusto today. It was an interesting change for me. I was sharing the lane with four. Two were doing sprints and I and another gal were doing distance. The sprinters would go right before one of us turned and would be gone. The gal I was sharing distance with was passing me every other…

I would die in 88. My home pool is 77°F and I often find it warm. I college they kept one of the pools at 75°F. It sucked at first but was wonderful after a while.

Sometimes. I wasn't working out for a while and I'm getting back into it for the last month. Right now I'm mainly focusing on getting to where I can go for a mile and not feel like I'm dying by the end. Once that happens I'll start back into some sprints.

I'm jealous. I live in Florida, for heavens sake, and we still end up moving to the smaller indoor pool every November because the outside pool isn't heated. The air temps are almost never too cold to swim here if the water was warmer. [/quote] Our old pool city pool was outdoor and heated. The real downside was that the…

I hadn't put that thought together myself! I bet I'm doing that to myself. I can't get my heart-rate up when swimming. I've heard that some people are that way; I'm swimming hard and I am really having to control my breathing (suppressing the urge to breathe more) and I'm only getting into the 110-130 BPM range. Several…

I little slower but yet another uninterpreted mile. 1750 in 43 even.

One time I was swimming and the lead guard noticed the water level dropping. Someone had left a valve set wrong after back-flushing and the pool was being drained. He closed it and then added several thousand gallons of city water. I noticed the temperature drop considerably. I was towards the end of my workout and it was…

I went and got fat and lazy for two years and am getting back into it now. Meanwhile you kept right on rocking incredible distances.... Right now I'm on the boundary of it feeling like a drag and like a pleasant time to think. I certainly feel SOOOO much better after a swim. I look forward to it being a great feeling while…

Got another full 1750 in uninterrupted. Knocked another 15 seconds off to 43:45

This is a frequent problem at swim meets. Muscle memory tells you to go right or left into the locker room because that's what you home pool is setup. Then you go to a pool the other way around and end up walking into the wrong way. I officiate at meets and I see this all the time. I'm careful to pay attention to not do it…

I love Monday evenings. The crowd is light. Tonight it was 3 people in 6 lanes; and my start and finish was all by myself. 1650 in 45 minutes, and the first time in a REALLY long time it was all freestyle with 69 uninterrupted flip turns.

That was what I noticed right away. Yeah, he's fat. But he's huge too. Not only is he much taller than the other people, look how broad his shoulders are. He's going to take less space if he loses some weight, but still will be huge with less fat.

I can't picture any friend of mine doing that to one of my daughters. Not only am I not friends with guys like that, I'm pretty sure they know they'd have a pissed off guy pummeling them over it. Ditto going the other way too.

Yep, that! Feeling full just is so satisfying. I can pack away an incredible amount of food to get there too.

I'm definitely healthier now. I put on the weight in my early 20's. I never got sick as a kid. I was one of those kids that got 3 perfect attendance awards. In my 30's I'd miss a whole bunch of wok because I'd get cold after cold in the winter, and they'd get so bad I'd just not be able to work. Knock on wood, it's been 2…

This thread has been a while.... I 'love' the new years resolution telling me about the 'evening regulars' because 'they come every nigh.' This is when I've been there 80% or more of the weeknights for 2-1/2 years now.

What do you have to worry about? Racing heartbeat? I notice I get dizzy if I get too warm. I get dizzy and tingly fingers if I push the oxygen too low. If either happen I back off.

85°F? I can't do squat when it's that warm. I'm WAY slower. The pool I swim in is normally 80°F. It's a bit cool getting in, but still is a bit warm when I get to work. One of my best swims so far was one morning when the fill float stuck. They didn't notice it until the filter pump sucked air so the pit was totally empty.…

Butterfly and breaststroke both require the two hand touch. It's often a hard one to judge because the fast swimmers will only brush the wall with one hand and push hard with the other. Unless you are watching the approach and initial touch, you've got to give the benefit to the swimmer.

Thanks Macstraw, it's great to have a swim coach giving advice! Interesting advice on the breathing at the end. This is something I need to try and work on. What I notice is that it seems like I'm broaching the surface based on momentum. I'm not trying to pop my head up but it comes up because I gain upward momentum. I…

I totally agree. I had to fight the flip turn for months before it became natural. Now it's totally natural and it seems much slower to no use one. My problem is that I use part of my lung capacity to keep my nose free of water when I flip. If I don't exhale, I get water up my nose. You don't dolphin kick while…

Cold and flu are totally different. A cold virus will be dead instantly in the water. The problem with flu is both vomit and diarrhea. Do either in the water, and the pool will get a 24 hour shutdown.

Me too, I don't let a cold stop me but I stop for the flu or other digestive problems. I don't ever want to be the one that shut down the pool for 24 hours because of diarrhea. I've found that 5 laps or so and everything clears out enough to breath normally. If I stop for more than 30 seconds it hits again so I usually…

Pools just aren't money makers. They originally tried to make a pool district that went outside town, but that went down in flames at the ballot box. The city then did the pool, they are on the hook for $700k/yr. Because I'm out of town, I have to pay $450 for a family membership instead of $350. No problems with access.…

I assume you meant a 25m pool. I work as a timing official for swim meets so I'm up on all of the region's pool sizes. We do have one oddball 50 yard pool but it won't be for long. It's going to become a 50m pool. Most of the short course pools here are 25 yards.

You're welcome. Come on you other MFP swim nuts, add to this thread. I LOL many times at the hate thread, but I think this one can be great too!

I love the old ladies that come to the pool and swim kick butt super fast laps. It gives me something to strive for - not getting passed by a 70 y/o lady every 5 laps. Yeah, I love the clean feeling right after a hard workout too. I love getting to the point where I can say to myself "one mile left" and it doesn't seem…

You know what I hate.... The US dumped the metric system conversion in '82. The pool I swim in was built in '01, no doubt it would be 25m not 25 yrd had that not happened. I just can't make my OCD tendencies happy. 35.2 laps for a mile. The only possible way to make things even close is to do 44 laps (1-1/4 mile) or 88…

Some of the people I share with do backstroke. If they know how to hold the line and stay on their side I don't mind at all. I don't try with anyone in the lane... My big hesitation is I'm still trying to learn the flip and I'm not doing it well yet.