Swimming for fitness (part 3). Dive in!

It's unheated! So unusable Dec/Jan/Feb.
And uncooled, so impossible to swim for excerise June/July/Aug/Sept!
See you all April or May??!!!

avocado I’m sure your DD will have fun too but boy was the house quiet last night and my youngest DD was v.sad this morn missing her big sis. I’ve seen school pics of them climbing & biking yest which I know she will love.
sand sounds lovely I’m missing my weekly outdoor swim already.

You are very welcome Sandland. Your pool sounds amazing!

Sneeks in. Looks around. Wonders if i might get accepted??
Tend to swim lengths once a week (1km, aiming for a mile) and aquafit once a week.
hate me now in an outside pool surrounded by palm trees and bougainvillea. Hopefully Wil, get another monyb-6weeks in before it gets too cold.

Well done Allegretto, Tri and Party. I agree that being able to share achievements is a big incentive. My daughter (Y6) is on her residential next week, Tri. She is quite nervous about it and it will feel odd not having her at home. 2km / 39mins done this morning.

First swim in over a week due to illness and work. 1.25km in 45 minutes. Pleased with that . Really agree that the wide medium speed lane is a godsend. Don't have one in my usual pool, where my pet peeve is the solo man in the fast lane, who is wide and splashy rather than fast, leaving the rest of us awkwardly timed in the slow, or dodging the width kids and fun swimmers in the free-for-all.

Well done to you too! And I bet dd is having a great time!

Oops strike out fail

Well done allegro it’s a nice feeling isn’t it I did 1k today too. Went early instead of my usual evening swim as DD is away on her residential at school - - mummy may have shed a few tears - - I’m missing her already but she be loving the sports activities

This thread is great. Did 1km today just so I could post it on here.

Well done Rights. Swimtag results have come through afterall. Apparently the internet was been down at the leisure centre all morning. 35sec slower than I've been the last couple of times …

Our pool is always busy, usually there are about 30 people at the session I go to. The other day one person was walking down the first half of the length and then swimming which was really annoying a lot of people. I do wish that the life guards would say something at times.

Lane etiquette is tricky Fairy. Today I ended up in the fast lane because there was someone in the medium lane going slowly. The pool was very quiet so the lanes worked out neatly for everyone. Swimtag didn't work at all today – nothing recorded at all, not even saying the wristband hasn't been docked. Frustrating as I do like seeing what Swimtag says!

Usually fast/middle/slow at my pool, with generally decent lane etiquette, though the fast/middle distinction is not much and it's considered ok to go in whichever has the fewest people if you belong in either of those two.

My pool has two lanes with ropes where Michael Phelps wannabees swim and the rest of the pool doesn't have lane ropes but does have the lane system. What do you do when you are considerably faster than one lane but considerably slower than the other?

The other day I was twice as fast as the lane to my right but twice as slow as the one to my left and faster than the person I was sharing the lane with. They thought I should move (and told me so) to the faster lane, I thought they should move to the slower lane but didn't tell them that.

I actual like the way our pool does it. Sunday morning only one lane which is about 5 wide, so plenty of room for overtaking and fast ones go up and down the middle.

Well done bruffin and what

I went for a swim after all, I was reluctant as I had leg cramp but managed 16 lengths then a short break for a drink and another 16.

The pool was busier than I expected it would be and I struggled to find the right lane - I was first in and so bagged the lane next to the wall. A bit later two men turned up and one was faster than me but the other was slower but they wanted to swim next to each other so took lane 2 and 3 but one kept coming into 'my' lane; I couldn't go in lane 4 because I'm too slow for lanes 3 and 4. It's a minefield isn't it?!

Dh had to go to work so i got up and went for a swim. I did breaststroke up and crawl back. I then did an egym session so pleased with myself

Managed a swim this morning, later, busier, 1km, so hungry now...!

Good luck rights
I was planning to go to lane swimming at eight but....I will go twice this week.

I'm here, just busy this week and only managed two swims: 1km yesterday and 4.2 km today. Today's was the swimtag Statue of Liberty challenge that my pool is doing for October. I decided to do it in one go, gets me bonus loyalty points I can use at the creche. Hard work but super satisfying! I completed it in 1h 21m, currently fastest time on the leader board so I'm well chuffed!

rights good luck in your 10k tomorrow!

I have not been good lately, only going to my lessons and an aqua class after which i do 500m.
My first lesson back, due to an mistake i was the only one there, so my teacher got in the pool with me and looked under the water and gave me some more tips on what i was doing wrong.

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Have you sorted your finis duo yet?
You need to convert the music to MP3, then its just a paste and copy job. I had to return my first one because it stopped working, but touch wood the replacement seems ok.