Swim parents- do you ever get used to the 4.30am swim?

[Lucycat]

Knackered again on a Saturday sitting at the pool- gawd knows how dd1 feels! But at least there are 40 other swimmers so that means 40 other sets of parents who crash and burn at about 2pm!
Do you ever get used to it?

4am??? OMG!

Oh well done you. I was one of those swimmers! Our swim started at 6am though, I am quaking at the thought of 4.30am.

our earliest swim is 6am. Dont think I cope with a 4am. 6am swim still means a 5:10 wakeup for me, 3x a week. groan.

Its easier in summer, when its light. freezing cold winters mornings are the pits.

I have very fond(!) memories of cold cheese on toast wrapped in foil and a flask of tea on the way to school afterwards.

eh? where do people go swimming at 4:30 am?

Eh? Why do people go swimming at 4:30?

Wow! Respect! That is dedication.

admittedly the swimming doesn't start until 5am and luckily we live close to the pool but even so..... the reason it's so early is because they slide the boom down to one end to make it into a 50m pool so that the National and Olympians can train after the Regional group swimmers have finished at 7am.

I can't face it every week and neither can dd but she says it's so different to swimming in a 25m pool cos you don't get to push off a turn in the middle! so it's good training for long course events.

Mind you she's only 10 so we might have a few more years of this.

llareggub - how long did you swim for then? as long as dd enjoys it then I'm happy to take her 5 times a week. ughh

DD used to have to go early but her earliest was starting at 6. She has moved onto rowing now which is not quite so anti social!

Its when I see posts like these that I am grateful that whilst my DD is an enthusistic member of her swimming club, she is,bless her ,not actually very good Lets just say I just pray she is not last when we do galas

I struggle enough with early evening training twice a week. am secretly hoping she loses interest by the summer...