Swimming

Irritated sinuses then.

I was entirely new to swimming as of January this year. I currently swim four days a week, on consecutive days, for only forty five minutes at a time (including a good few pauses for thought), and until very recently it was all front crawl.

I've mostly been swimming in a Poolsan pool; though my lessons (currently one a week) are in a chlorinated pool, and this doesn't make for the clearest memories. The temperature of each? I don't know, unfortunately; though the Poolsan pool is noticeably cooler than the chlorinated pool.

Keeping water from nose is always a consideration. I'm sure this will improve alongside swimming overall; though I've a hunch that my sinuses might also be on the sensitive side. The general consensus is that the significance of my symptoms is slightly surprising, given that all I'm doing is swimming.

On the whole? I need to be more organised in my exploration of the symptoms that I'm currently experiencing. I've memories of symptoms from the past few months, but I can't always remember which pool I was in at the time, and everything tends to run together into a big memory soup.

That said, I'm pretty confident that improving the separation of nose and water will help no end, it's just a case of keeping track of each swim, any symptoms that result, and anything I try in order to limit water ingress. Again, noseclips. I've already had a lesson whilst plugged, and I'm going to stick with them for now.

It's dented my mojo, is what it's done. I started swimming for a bit of straightforward fun, but it's very quickly developed into a confusing preoccupation.

Anyway, fingers crossed, nostrils closed, and cheers for the input.

Yep, try the nose clips, and stick with if you can.

I always give up on them, as I mostly exhale through my nose.
I suffer from cold symptoms from the pool, and have down for years, I just put up with it.

Basically putting bleach up ones nose, may cause certain symptoms.

The longer and more often i swim, the worse it gets, like today. I am sniffing away, much to my colleagues annoyance, meh.