Swimming

Nose clips. Own up.

I'm terrible at getting that sweet spot and closing the soft palate - so I'm forever sucking great throat fulls of salty liquid down through my nose. I've tried exercises to stop, but I'd rather just concentrate on swimming so am thinking of picking up some clips.

However I've heard some people say they're a bad idea. Thoughts?

If it makes a difference I will likely never be competent enough to compete in open water so the issue of them not being permitted in races won't affect me. Just want to swim for the pleasure/pain of it all. It's not an issue in pools - A) Because I have an easier time controlling breathing, B) Because I just don't swim in pools that often.

I'm forever sucking great throat fulls of salty liquid down through my nose

Must... not... make cheap blowjob joke.......

I'm forever sucking great throat fulls of salty liquid down through my nose.

Must... not... make cheap blowjob joke.......

NOSE?! Lancer, mate, you've been doing it wrong...

The evidence tends to suggest it's CYOA who's been doing it wrong. Not that I'm volunteering to give lessons to the remedial class.

nose clips are as essential to me as goggles for pool swimming, and swimming front crawl in open water.
Much of my recent swimming though has involved hours of breaststroke in rivers, so I don't need either (I actually wear sunglasses!)
I don't know anything at all about nasal blow jobs though.

Just google-imaged 'nosejob', secretly hoping for the worst. Thank fuck for rhinoplasty, that's all I'm saying.

Lovely club swim this eve, first time felt controlled for ages if not very quick still. Concentrated on form not speed, was comfortable sub 1m45 for 11 x 100m first 5 off 1m50s turnaround next 5 off 2 mins, then one for luck.

Actually had an alright swim last night too. Seem to be over a heavy cold i had now and it was nice just swimming up and down last night...

Alright plod last night

1500 - fc
500 - back
4 x 100 IM
100 kicks
500 fc/pull
100 swimdown

same ole...

2 swims in 2 nights, led lane this eve and swam to the turnaround times set which was a nice change from the usual unnecessary sprints at first through to floundering by the end that the others leading regularly manage to demonstrate.

^ grammar needs work though.

http://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/index.php?p=events&s=&id=89

Considering this.... for Nutty reasons... Anyone ?

Been in the pool twice this week, back in again tomorrow- amazing how quickly you can go from "drowning in a straight line" to "thrashing with purpose".

Both times I've done 1,500 metres in ~30 minutes, first time breaststroke and second time (feeling rather selfconscious) with a bright red float clenched between my thighs, doing front crawl arms-only.

1500m breaststroke in 30 mins is quite good going isn't it?

I've no idea- it's the wrong stroke, anyway, all the other triathletes would piss themselves laughing at me.

Nah, they're too busy laughing at me because it's off down to Folkestone tomorrow for the Xmas swimming weekend. Swimming off the boat tomorrow morning, off the beach in the afternoon and then a night swim. I'm bringing a wettie that I might wear for the afternoon swim, as a scrawny git like me may not last too long without it.

Last year, two of us got quite bad hypothermia during our December swim, and the other guy was dragged from the water semi-conscious and can't remember about 3 hours of his life. It's colder this year. I'm quite, quite scared already.

good luck.
shivers

Nice thick layer of Goose fat maybe?

Half price registration for the Swimathon in January ...............

My New Years resolution is to get back into the pool after a year off.
I aim to go two, perhaps three nights a week but will only have an hour each time at most.
Anyone recommend any decent programs to get me up to fitness?
Preferably one that doesn't include butterfly :)

Depends what you used to do when swim fit ?

After 9 months off from pregnancy once, i started back doing 1 session a week, about 40 laps (1k)... front crawl slowly. When fit i would do 4k average on all 4 stokes... then built up to 4x a week slowly plus increasing each session. ( but i hadnt done any exercise for 9 months plus had put on 2 stone !)

So maybe 25% of what you used to do twice a week ??
What would that be to you ?

Being amazingly shallow I find that gadgets help motivate me in the pool.

I got a Garmin 910XT last year, and it counts your lengths, plus records what the stroke was, how quickly you went, how efficient etc.

I found that trying to count lengths in my head was a PITA, now I just choff up and down and glance at my wrist every now and again.

Much more fun.

Wheres the Math in that ? ;)

I'm more toward the "crayons" side of the spectrum than the "chalk".