Swimming for fitness (part 3). Dive in!

rights do you run and swim for similar times? Trying to work out how far I should be running- struggling with 5km atm, but part of that is a mental battle - third time past my front door is my "give it up and go in" point.

Avocado your time is insanely quick by my very sedate standards.

I had my first swimming lesson on Tuesday night. It was very good although I am now so obsessed with trying to get my number of strokes-to-do-a-length down that it took me forever to do 50 lengths last night and I'm still using way too many strokes!

I'm not at all keen on the idea of naked swimming in a pool with strangers.

At night, In a warm sea with a partner is fine but that's as far as I'd go.

The idea of swimming naked with any of my crowd of 'swim friends' that I've got to know at the pool sounds like the stuff of nightmares!

Fast Man has a name – he introduced himself today. I said I was pleased that he hadn’t been lapping me lately but he said he’d felt a bit sluggish in January. So I replied that therefore I wasn’t any faster, he was just going slower! Managed 2km in 39m6s today so he must have been making me go a bit quicker!

I have swum naked in pools at spas abroad- one of them has a pool that could be 40 yards long. It is pleasant, though of course you will not be bumping into your next door neighbour or boss.

In aqua glove news - my back has been aching like a bastard today!

Just thinking ewwwe at the naked swimming I’m with rights don’t mind the human body but don’t want the view when swimming I can’t swim naked anyway it’s too uncomfortable with big boobs they float too much!!

Happy New Year.

Too cold for swimming atm. Running instead.
Aiming to manage some front crawl and some 2km swims once it warms up, and before it becomes a bath tub (hopefully March-June swimming).
Will see how that goes before setting a Sept-Nov target.

I am not at all ewwwww about naked body swimming with respect to bodily fluids etc, I mean a swim suit doesn't stop all that, does it, but I really, really don't want to be behind a naked person doing breaststroke if my head is under water, and I don't want to see anyone's willy bobbing about thanks!

Our pool does a coached session on a Wednesday evening. I can't go [pout]

I'm not sure I fancy swimming naked in the local pool flamingnora - are you going to go?!

I have my first swimming lesson tonight (group session) - stroke improvement. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks Avocado I will read it when it's released. I know it's happening all over the place. Our problem is that our pool is not in a nice area that might attract a cafe or restaurant society (no space either), it needs a new boiler, it's built on asbestos, needs significant roof and other maintenance work, serves protected groups in the main (so no money) and has no parking either. But we love it because it's local, it's friendly, it's 80 years old and it's pure function over form or beauty.

I didn't swim today, my new job has cut me back from 4 x week to only 2 :( I will cut out the evening glass of wine on Monday in favour of a swim.

I just found out our pool has a club session one night a week for naturists. I didn't know that. I've only been swimming there for 20 years!

That's exactly it Ski
As I run I don't really need to tone my legs up and in fact like to relax them in the pool, so working my upper body is really good for me.

Mind you the time I saved cos I was swimming more quickly was absorbed by the time it took me to keep taking them on and off.

Aqua gloves sound cool?! Are they to make it harder to swim and therefor strengthen and tone you up? My DD got flippers for Xmas and was practicing her butterfly kick which she quite enjoyed at the weekend. I was just hoping the lifeguard would allow them but they didn’t say anything I think as she was “swimming properly” not just playing about. They don’t let some stuff get used in public sessions.

I was going to go for a swim today but for various reasons went for my first run in about four years instead. :) Only wobbled down the road and back for about 20 minutes, and I'm pretty sure I had low blood sugar afterwards (not sure how to manage that?) as I was very shaky and just stuffed myself and felt much better!

Anyway, hope to swim again on Friday. Am excited by the idea of maybe using aqua gloves one day!

Yep timed my run then swim today so I could use the showers again it was good motivator actually I wouldn’t have done a swim if I hadn’t needed to use the showers but then ended up doing a really good 1km of F.C. non-stop. Was really pleased I was in the fast lane and keeping pace with some nice guys. I can’t believe a year ago I struggled to do 1-2L of F.C. and now I can rattle it out made me feel really proud of what I’ve been working on this year. I’m toying with the idea of entering a Go-Tri again this spring to keep my swimming motivated. I tried my first one last Sept. and surprised myself ranking highly, despite being one of the last out the pool.

I know what you mean Flippety. Our pool can be either 33m or 25m depending on where the divider is. I time my swims to get the 33m sessions but on a couple of occasions the divider has got stuck and we've had 25m. It feels far more to do 80 x 25m than 62 x 33m somehow!

Thanks very much for whoever suggested training in a 50km pool. It felt less arduous only turning once every 100 metres. Our pool has 50km lanes on a Friday morning so did 2km on Friday am - added bonus was that I was the only one in the medium lane -apparently most people prefer the 25m section :)

Swam for 45 minutes this morning - no idea how far I went as watch didn't kick in (user error....) and I can't count beyond 12 without losing count.

Ski when my bathroom had issues don't ask I often timed my sport and hair washing times around being able to use the sports centre showers! They are lovely, even if you do have to press the button every 30 secs or so.

1K done WITH NEW AQUA GLOVES (4 lengths out of every 12). Wow, they really do increase the resistance and make you work. My breathing felt like it did when I was new to swimming. When I'm stronger I am going to be swimming like a shark!

It was busy today. I don't normally go at the beginning of a lane session, so I don't know if it was that, or something else. Everyone was well behaved though.

Our boiler is broken so lacking hot water & heating so went for a good swim after my run and had a lovely shower this morning.

lljkk I can swim at two other pools in nearby towns with my Places for People swim membership so it is probably worth looking into.

Well done building!

nora you need to read this book when it comes out: www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781409175209

Our save the pool group will meet soon to see what what we can do. Taking on a pool is a huge commitment and it needs major works soon.

On the brighter, personal side, I did 1400 metres in 30 mins today. That felt good.

Pffff. I'm not late night swimming. Oh no. I am sitting in the sodding car waiting for DS1 to finish sodding band rehearsal. Pfff

Aaah, so so happy! Did 40 lengths in a 20m pool, so 0.8 km, in around 25 min (had a five min chat in the middle so gross time 30 min but never mind). Not tired. Just delighted.

Had bought a (cheap) waterproof smartwatch thing for Christmas which was utterly pointless as the water meant it thought I exited the thing. Stupid thing.

But I swam 0.8 km!

Ooooh... I'm with P4P, too, SingingAvo.
Can I use my swim membership at other branches, do you think? I keep meaning to ask.

Glad you found this thread, Flippetydip.

Rights just clocked what you said. Very funny!