The swimming thread...

[lx_online]

After seeing the Running thread, I though I would start a similar one for Swimming.

I have an open water swim coming up - I'm strong in the pool, but this will be the first time in a dock/lake.

Any recommendations for places to train around Brackley/Towcester/Silverstone would be appreciated.

Other than that - just talk about your swimming (or lack of it) here...

[tactcom7]

I'll go first, i can only do breastroke, and can't quite do a length underwater.
next..

[The Idle Biker]

Let me be the first to say that Open Water Swimming is tough and only for the foolhardy.

Let me also say that I think that the UK open water swimming champion Keri Ann Payne is llluuuuuverrrlllyyy. 9198

[SuzukiNess]

i sometimes train with Keri - she's prettier in real life :) (she swims in the lanes next to me and does bout 5 for my 1 lap :mrgreen:

i've only recently got back into swimming after a good few years break (read 10+) and it feels good!

want to sign up to do the Salford Swim next year.. see how i get on with getting the fitness levels up first !! (20/day ex smoker i got a lot of crap to get out of my lungs!) :rolleyes:

Oh - oops.. almost forgot! - good luck with the open water swim

[Shawthing]

You wanna get one of these.

Finis freestyle snorkel.
http://forums.sv650.org/images/products/medium/FINISFREESTYLE.jpg (javascript:showLargeImage())

Head down all the way. Forget the waves tryin to drown you.

[dizzyblonde]

I hate swimming, very self concious. I'd prefer to go in a full dive suit so I could hide me!!!

Although I can swim without using my arms.

[DarrenSV650S]

Never done much cold water swimming. Except when I was about 15 and tried to swim to the castle in the middle of Loch Rannoch then started to get cramp in my leg so had to turn back half way lol

Used to be in a swimming club but it got way to serious and I stopped enjoying it so quit. I just do 10 or 20 lengths down the gym now to cool off, and pi** off all the slow fattys :lol:

[lx_online]

You wanna get one of these.

Finis freestyle snorkel.
http://forums.sv650.org/images/products/medium/FINISFREESTYLE.jpg (http://javascript<b></b>:showLargeImage())

Head down all the way. Forget the waves tryin to drown you.

Like this idea! If only it were allowed. Would you say it helps with training though, or gets you too used to breathing when normally (when racing) you won't have that luxury?

Managing 1.5km (60 lengths) in 26minutes at the moment.


i sometimes train with Keri - she's prettier in real life


Lucky!

[lx_online]

I hate swimming, very self concious. I'd prefer to go in a full dive suit so I could hide me!!!

Although I can swim without using my arms.

Like a fish? Or kicking away like crazy?

[dizzyblonde]

kicking. Easy to do under water too. Don't do it often, don't like under water.....don't like swimming!

Last time I went was in a very empty pool in the hotel last year, when we were in Cyprus.

[Reeder]

Used to love swimming and go 4 times a week when I was younger.
Lost all ability & fitness now and can only manage about 6 lengths without drowning :) Rubbish at getting my breathing right on the front crawl too. Basically because of these reasons I don't try anymore :D I just **** about and swim underwater mainly. It's fun doing entire lengths before you pass out ;)

[tactcom7]

I couldn't afford to go 4 times a week if I wanted to. Went on tuesday to the local pool and it's £3.90 for an adult swim! To top it off i'd done 3 lengths when the lifeguard came over and said we're cordoning off the pool now for the schoolkids, right I said. Yeah we're halving it lengthways, then dividing your remaining half again, so I was left with a teeny tiny bit of pool. Bad times.

[lx_online]

I couldn't afford to go 4 times a week if I wanted to. Went on tuesday to the local pool and it's £3.90 for an adult swim! To top it off i'd done 3 lengths when the lifeguard came over and said we're cordoning off the pool now for the schoolkids, right I said. Yeah we're halving it lengthways, then dividing your remaining half again, so I was left with a teeny tiny bit of pool. Bad times.

Same here - but our pool does unlimited for £16.50 a month. Bargin as I use it 5 times a week!

[tactcom7]

Same here - but our pool does unlimited for £16.50 a month. Bargin as I use it 5 times a week!

That is a bargain, if I didn't have to stay away with work all the time i'd probably join up. Recently I tried to find a pool down south and asked for an 'adult swim', when I inquired as to the size of the pool she said 'oh you can't swim here it's for kids really.' oh, can I have my money back then?
No, she said.
Fetch me the manager...(got it back in the end :-) )

[Reeder]

I was lucky that I was young didn't have to worry what it was costing me! I couldn't justify that now if I wanted to.
However at the time I believe each member of my family had yearly passes at this swimming pool which were at a stupidly cheap rate of about £50 each I think.

http://providerfiles2.thedms.co.uk/eandapics/ee/0110429_1.jpg

[carelesschucca]

I've not done swimming outdoors for years but I'm on a swimming cycle again, I find a nice cruise up and down the pool does wonders for my mental state its just so relaxing... at the moment I'm managing just over 2km in just over an hour on a monday...

Good luck with your outdoor swim...

[lx_online]

I've not done swimming outdoors for years but I'm on a swimming cycle again, I find a nice cruise up and down the pool does wonders for my mental state its just so relaxing... at the moment I'm managing just over 2km in just over an hour on a monday...

Good luck with your outdoor swim...

Thanks!

Swimming that far each week is really good. It gets less relaxing when you realise the person that won last year effectively did your 'sprint' speed for over 1.5km!

[Shawthing]

Like this idea! If only it were allowed. Would you say it helps with training though, or gets you too used to breathing when normally (when racing) you won't have that luxury?

Managing 1.5km (60 lengths) in 26minutes at the moment.



Lucky!

Good going.
Certainly helps with training allowing a more symetrical effort improving both sides of the body. Avoids the neck turning additional effort (asymetary) in freestyle. The tubing does add an slight additional restriction to the airflow that you don't have with just an open gob.
But if your not allowed to use in the event then as they say 'the best way to train for something is to do it' as it is.

[arc123]

Did the Great Salford swim last year and the Great North swim year before that... Am by no means a good swimmer, both were done breast stroke only.

I literally have a mental block against front crawl for some reason, and cannot do more than half a length without taking in gallons of water!!

Timely thread - i'm digging out the wetsuit and going to a local lake tomorrow morning....

Good luck with the swim!

[Quedos]

swim on and off more off than on at the mo but trying to rectify that.

used to swim 400 lengths a day 5 days a week when I was off sick with my back and that help me escape surgery.

normally do half a mile in lunchtime = 20mins
i'm a front crawl bird breast stroke hurts my knees - beside I like annoying all the made up ladies who are frightened to get their hair wet

good luck in your open water.
I was in Loch Lomond yesterday and I don't think I would have the balls to do that!