Swimming for fitness (part 3). Dive in!

Has anyone found that their nails are affected by regular (5x week) swimming? Mine seem to be aiming away from the nail bed and the only thing I can put it down to is chlorine/pool chemicals.

Back to the 50m pool for the first time in a while. Forgot just how much harder it seems than 25m but managed a steady 3km

750m for me tonight dodging around kids playing. Busy tonight. There were a few of us trying to negotiate a way up & down the pool!

Sounds fab corrigans.

Quick 800m last night whilst one child at their club.

I've finally found my groove at the moment. I've been lacking consistency over the winter. I had a lovely swim in the ocean this morning with friends.

I saw Aussie Olympic swimmer Cate Campbell at the beach. I was too chicken to ask for a photo or autograph though, I thought I'd leave her in peace as no one else seemed to recognise her. My goodness, she has lats to die for!!

Had a great mile swim last night with the whole pool to myself for most of it I guess most folk are out on a Friday night not de-stressing in a pool. I loved it.

Ooh me next then. Swam 1.2k last night.
Goal just to keep swimming min 1k once ideally twice a week. Working on increasing F.C. speed by focusing on technique and making myself do sprints which I dont do enough of.
Also teaching myself butterfly
Too keep relatively pain free as had a couple of months of issues again not sure if running induced so need to keep strength training if I want to keep running grrr!

Me: boxcar
Swims: hadn’t swum in 15yrs until I got injured running this summer. Getting back into it (1k continuous front crawl tonight) but only averaging once every 10 days as I’m easing back into running again.
Goals: 400m in under 8:30

Ok Rights.
Me: CorrigansDoorKnob
Swims: 3 x per week minimum. 3-4.5k per set. Buzz word - consistency!
Goals:

1. possibly 10k open water swim in November, maybe 5k if I wimp out. November is quite soon, so this may not be achievable...
2. go sub 1:40/100 for CSS and join the next faster lane on my Friday morning squad
3. open water 3.6k swim in Feb: beat my previous PB of 61:30

Who’s next?

I've been sick the past week and my ears are still a bit dodgy so no swimming for me. I'm hoping by Friday I can venture into the water again.

I need a new goal right now, i'm just not quite sure what that's going to be.

OK folks, it's a new term, let's do a roll call and get this thread and ourselves more active!

Me: TheOrigRightsofwomen
Swims: aim to swim twice a week, 1K front crawl
Goals: None at the moment, just maintain the twice a week swim.

I've done another couple of laps of the lake.
I'm feeling more confident now.

Has anyone signed up to the Great North Swim next year in Windermere?

Logged a couple of swims this week back in the shorter 20m but very quiet club pool so feels harder to rack up a 1km than in the 25m pool

Morning all. I fell off the thread and swimming during my holiday, then we all got sick. I’ve managed a few sporadic swims but I’m now back in the game. A few of us have been ocean swimming when the weather’s been calm enough, and it’s been beautiful. Chuffing cold though. I have to wear a wetsuit but everyone else has just been wearing their budgie smugglers. We’re going again tomorrow. Air temp 9 degrees, water 16-17.

I’ve been struggling with medial elbow pain, coach says I drop my elbows on the catch and pull through. It’s better when I make a real effort to try not to, but that’s hard to sustain for a 4K set.

Core strength... oh yeah.... it works EVERYTHING!!

My OH has a 6 pack! first time in over 30 years.

I do too, but it's shy and prefers to hide under about 2inches of blubber skin

Seriously impressed with the open water swimming. I'd love to but am scared it would be too cold for me (I have Raynaud's).

First swim in 3 weeks and had the luxury of an entire pool to myself this morning! Did 1km and am pleased to see my times improving. I'm easing back into running now after 3 months off with an ankle injury. I'm keen to keep swimming once a week if I can. I need to work on core strength too: does swimming contribute to that?

Good for you Ski! You have done really well, and swimming in cold water isnt easy, and you have come so far!

OH and I went to pool last night and had a lane to ourselves for most of it, then someone got in..

Bless him he put in a blistering 50m to show us he could.. but then couldn't sustain it and had to rest, while we just pushed off and kept going.

He was a good swimmer, just out of condition, and we were on a mission to be ready for the return to Masters on Sunday. We did about 90 mins and came out with 2.5k with 300m of that kick drills with fins

Overall, I've improved my stamina over the summer, thanks to all the long course swimming I've been doing here and there. Last night for the first time ever I was able to do a straight 400m FC warm up with no stops. this is the standard start from our coach, so I know come Sunday, she will start off with that, and this time I'll do it without the pause for a couple of gulps of air halfway through.

I know my speed may have slipped a bit, but I've worked on strength overall, and a lot of leg strength too. I know she'll have us racing and dying working on speed, but what she doesn't get to work on are endurance and distance.

In a good swimming place. bring it on :D

Lane to myself yesterday in pool near holiday, wracked up a mile before was kicked out for the over 50s session. Laughed inside as give me a couple more years and I’ll qualify, my lovely DH did say “no I don’t think you can pass for 50 yet “ when I joked do you think I can stay in bless him I was feeling 50 with my creaky joints the last few weeks!

Cornwall

Ski that looks amazing - where is it?

I'm getting better at this front crawl malarkey. I'm starting to cover a bit more distance and when I get weirded out I stick my head up, look for a buoy and do a bit more.

Today’s swimming pool but really cold even in a shortie wetsuit.

Sea swim yesterday in Cornwall good 3-400m my best yet back n forth front crawl between lifeguard flags- a couple of months ago I’d not put my face in sea water for 30+years it was perfect conditions as I could get out a good 20m+ from the shore but still see the bottom easily. Today conditions were rolling surf so no a go.

it was 2.5k on Sunday and about 2k on the Friday. it's done wonders for confidence and once i was warmed up and in the zone, it really was like i could swim forever, have not felt that for a while, it's been good. It's hard when you swim in a club full of good, very good and GB medal winning swimmers, it's easy to feel rubbish all the time, but we have worked v hard this last year and now i think we can say we are decent swimmers. I'm looking forward to seeing how things improve with another year of training :D

OH did a sprint off the blocks and made it half way, it's a LOOONG way when you are trying to swim as fast as you can.

Wow sounds fab hissy 6k and a 50m pool. Our nearest 50m pool is an hours drive so not really an option. I’ve only swam a couple of times in a 50m pool was lovely though, when on hols my then 10yr old & I swam in the London Olympic pool it was fab. She’s tiny looks about 8 then, and we ended up in lane 3 swimming past the adults was proud a mamma

NICE!!

Although I hear you on the murky stuff! Freaks me out every time. OWS is a bit of a battle unless it’s clear to the bottom...

There is one benefit of summer holidays in that sometimes, just sometimes we get a pool/lane to ourselves

OH and I train together, so not the pool to myself anymore, but sometimes we get a lane each

And sometimes we get the really stupid idiots who can’t work out that they aren’t even close to being the same pace as the lane they pick...

So after a bloody awful session earlier in the week, I had the genius idea of an early sesh at the 50m pool.

It was fab, we had about an hour, met with a couple of the (top performance) swimmers from our club, and met back up with them on Sunday, so all in all had some uninterrupted 50m lanes where it was just so relaxing and I racked up a shed load of continuous distance

I’m going to make sure we feature the 50m pool in our week, it really is a lovely space to be in, mentally and physically. So even if we’re technically not training at the club, we did over 6k for the week. And a good strong positive 6k at that.

Can’t wait to get back in. 🏊🏻‍♀️ The ta been a while since I’ve said that tbh