January swimming (Read 1164 times)

Carl, hope you can find time to get into the pool. It feels great after a run! Did 35 min/1400 yads after my 6.5 mile run today. My schedule begins to get a lot tighter for the next few months...hope I can keep this up. Who needs sleep anyway, right?

After a not so good swim Thursday, I did get in a great 1200 today. Have to get a little more consistant. Andy

Mind if I join the conversation? I've been swimming for 20+ years, never competitively but always for fun. I think I do good at it because I have these big feet............no need for fins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I swam today for the first time since September. I had to go and actually buy a membership. I used to teach group fitness but stopped in October......this is the first time I've had to pay in 5 years! So anyway, I'm not the greatest at figuring out yards, I keep track of laps. I swam for about 25 minutes today completing 20 laps mostly breast stroke since I'm recovering from my marathon a week ago (did about 6 laps with the kickboard but it wore my legs out and did 4 laps of freestyle). It felt good to be back. Had the lane to myself which is the norm on a Sunday (the gym is dead ). 20*25 yards= 500 meters? not too sure if that's right or not.

Nick, teens are like herds of buffalo at parties -- can't believe how they thunder up & down the stairs all night (to get to the pizza in the fridge at 3am?!) Welcome, turbo! 40 minutes swim today. Trying to work on not cranking my head up out of the water when I breathe. 'snot working. I tried one of the beginning TI drills but had trouble. Hey, maybe I can get some help from a TI graduate here: I start out on my back, as the book instructs, then on my side (head still out of the water), arm outstretched in front of me. It's just fine and dandy. The moment I turn my head to put it in the water (looking down), and then back up to breathe again....bleah! Water up my nose, etc. What am I doing wrong?

Nice to see everyone here. Hope you are all enjoying the pool. Econo, I don't even know what a T1 is, no less what you are doing "wrong". But I will share with you what my instructor said to me every time I complained when water was going up my nose. He would say "well, that is because you are breathing in when you should be breathing out". I used to swear at him a lot. 30 min 1200 yds. I was not going to go because it was getting so late..but I am glad that I did. I feel so much better now.

4x400 again today. I'm forgetting my to count my GS, adding extra laps has me concentrating on not loosing count of Apple, Banana, Cat, etc. I'm always getting a little faster, but I can only compare myself to the one other guy that does laps while I'm there, and he is probably at least twice as fast as me. I don't want to be the last guy out of the water when I start doing Tri's this year. A coach or masters group won't fit into my schedule right now, so can anyone recommend good books, websites, or videos that will benefit me? I know the bookstore closest to me has a Total Immersion book, or should I order the book and video together?

I would definitely order the video. It helps to see what they're talking about when they introduce the stroke drills.