Poolside chat: Calling all parents of competitive swimmers!

[Marypoppins19]

I thought it might be helpful to share our highs/lows/questions/thoughts in one place. Who’s joining me!?

Anyone think that swim clubs will close for a bit as a result of coronavirus? I'm really worrying about it! DS will not cope without swimming. It keeps him regulated and happy and he'll be insane to manage, moody and really low without it. It's his life and I can't imagine him not swimming for more than a couple of weeks max. Please tell me swim clubs will keep going as long as feasible and may not shut/stop at all? What do you think the risk is at a pool? I'm guessing about the same as at school? (or less, due to the chlorine??🤞)

Morning! Am sat at training today but having same discussion. We all think training will shut down soon. We train at a council facility and I think we will close this week. Mine will be climbing the walls... between gcse uncertainty and no swimming he will be foul!

I have been having the same thoughts. We are supposed to be at a gala next weekend, but I am just waiting for the email to say it’s cancelled.
Training? I’m hoping it will continue as long as possible - perhaps with no spectators? As the squads are pretty small, it wouldn’t be a large gathering and it would be easy to identify who had been there in case of a child developing symptoms. Until the schools close, it seems futile to close clubs, but the local football squads have all cancelled already.

We had same discussion last night poolside, we plan to keep training but think at some point the council will close..... ds is asthmatic so I'm concerned but equally without swimming he'll lose fitness which won't help and his mood won't be good!
Ds has qualified for regionals for first time and I'm gutted for him that it could be cancelled, I'm saying nothing to him about this as he will be devastated.

Well at least we are all in the same boat and thinking on the same lines! Just hoping the club training can on as long as is possible 🤞🤞🤞🏊

Swim Ireland has cancelled all galas and as if today is recommending training stops too. We could go ahead with a small session for a selection top squad members, but for now we have no school and no swimming.

We've been pondering this too. Just named coaches and swimmers were allowed at a meet near us this weekend. I'm holding off purchasing the Regional hoodie, even if they are saying that Corvid19 doesn't like chlorine.

There's nothing for it, we'll have to buy one of these:
www.endlesspools.co.uk/garden-shed-pools.php

Ooh, I like that endless pool!

"Now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others and to stop all unnecessary travel," the prime minister says.

So presumably they are closing all sports centres and pools?

Swim England have cancelled their events until the end of May. It says they're hoping to re arrange at a later date. It also says whilst schools are still open that clubs can continue to train. It looks like it's up to individual regions and clubs to decide on what they do about meets but Swim England recommend they follow the advice so I'm guessing that means galas will be cancelled. www.swimming.org/swimengland/events-cancelled-coronavirus/

Have any of your clubs commented on Coronavirus? We've had nothing from ours, not even "we carry on as normal." They've always been slack on communication.

Somerset ASA has been fairly active with tweets/news articles and one of the parents tends to send those out - I think we've probably had 3 Coronavirus ones and some specific requests from the sports centre and a school whose pool some of the children use.

We are working on the basis that we will continue to train as long as it is considered a good idea to keep schools open. No galas or Open Meets for the foreseeable future.

We have heard nothing. Our club hopeless at communication

Scratch that, we've now stopped training for a while (duration TBD).

Can anybody recommend a good app..any app or video for hearty indoor exercise?

I'm not sure our Nintendo wii (12+ years) is up to this.

Swim England have cancelled their events until the end of May.

Does anyone know if this means the British champs have been cancelled? (DS definitely not competing! But we we have tickets to go and see it so DS can catch a glimpse of some swimming heroes!)

Nothing as yet on British. My son’s friend should be going and mum desperately trying to find out

Training has now been cancelled for us. DS will be climbing the walls within days. His school has already closed for his year group so lots of time at home. I'm making him spend time outside with the dog or going for a dog walk with me. The swimming club are going to send some information on exercises they can do at home. I'll see if I can share it when they do @madcats.

Still training here. Would be great to share any land training stuff

Swim England has just widened the fence that they are sitting on. Today's announcement is that they appreciate that, if they banned training and some clubs ignored their advice, clubs that ignored their advice wouldn't have any valid insurance. [Instead they are "advising clubs to postpone" to help the clubs that refuse to stop]. It isn't going down too well on twitter.

Luckily DD did some cross country yesterday so she was probably quite glad to have a bath and an early night. I suppose I should be glad that she isn't pestering me for an Xbox. She just wants her turbo trainer to have arrived yesterday!

l will post some land training links when they are ready - Jazz Carlin filmed some yesterday (though I am pretty certain she had planned to anyway).

I hope we can swapping swim stories and moans again soon.

I feel like we are the last swimming club standing.....! Anyone else still in the pool?

You're not the only one esther

@ealingwestmum - yay ! I feel less alone. The nearest City of club has closed - I noticed a dad and two small City of kids training in our public swim session last night.

And there goes our training now ....! Me and my big mouth...

Have 2 children in different clubs. 1 club ceased all training/land training last Tuesday ,the other club was still keeping all pool sessions going last night . My thoughts were whilst it’s on ,will take my child ,now wondering if I/they are being irresponsible

The advice is pretty clear:
www.swimming.org/swimengland/coronavirus-faqs-answered/

I've just heard that the social distancing might last for a year!

I've just heard that the social distancing might last for a year!

Hope not! We'll all go insane, particularly our sports mad DC who can't sit still! Just sent mine out for a walk with DH and DDog.I

I think our club was probably forced into stopping training earlier than they would have liked as pools cancelled external hire. We don't have our own pool and use a mix of school and council pools. They're still training some of the elite swimmers.