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Jun 2021
6:13pm, 8 Jun 2021
12,774 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
I borrowed the boy's scuba-style goggles. That solved my headache problem but nearly drowned me! I didn't realise how much I breathed through my nose until I couldn't.
I need to find a compromise: nice big, ideally one piece eye-bits but not over the nose 
But that's the first session of the official plan ticked off.
I've also just heard there is an Olympic distance triathlon to be held just 15km from where I live on the weekend I'd planned to do the 5km so there might be some reshuffling
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Jun 2021
12:08pm, 9 Jun 2021
12,776 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
TaDAH! Hoping this solves my problems: big, single piece round the eyes, so hopefully no eye-socket pressure; and no nose covering:
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Jun 2021
9:32pm, 9 Jun 2021
25,727 posts
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EvilPixie
Awesome swim tonight loved it
Didn’t think about time at a
L just enjoyed it and everything was fab 😀
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Jun 2021
12:46pm, 13 Jun 2021
12,811 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
Goggles doing the business. A bit leaky but nothing I can't handle and no throbbing pain!
Continuous 2.5km in the bank in 46.40 with some pretty even splits (one fast where lane partner decided to speed up as I overtook him. Just why, boys?)
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Jun 2021
1:27pm, 13 Jun 2021
12,813 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
Oooh, Garmin says SWOLF 1 pt better than last week and ave pace 1sec per length better (4sec per 100m). Can't argue with progress 😃. If I can hold that pace.for 5km I will be thrilled.
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Jun 2021
11:21am, 28 Jun 2021
12,891 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
What's up, folks? Very quiet round here!
I did my longest swim yet - 3.8km. Pace was slow and swolf was high. I could prob have finished the 5km but I want to do it when I am prepped and in form (= had a good breakfast!)
I think I will cheat on the plan and finish a bit earlier - maybe in 2 weeks.
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Jun 2021
11:22am, 28 Jun 2021
12,892 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
No iron swim badge though ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
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Jun 2021
11:30am, 28 Jun 2021
26,059 posts
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EvilPixie
I have my ironman on the 25th
My lake says it's 750m round but Garmin never agrees
So I am aiming for 5 laps on Wednesday which is a smidge under distance (3.75km vs 3.8km)
6 is too short for 5k and 7 is over 5k!
Think I will save the 5K for August
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Jun 2021
12:46pm, 28 Jun 2021
10 posts
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Hobie
I did an OWS that was somewhere between 3500 and 5000m this weekend (that's the range of distances my group recorded for the same swim). I suspect it was about 4k, but with some tough sea conditions so starting to feel confident about 5k in August
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Jun 2021
8:12am, 29 Jun 2021
10,090 posts
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Sweetie
If you can swim 4k Hobie you can definitely do 5
Solid OW swim last night, forgot to take my Garmin (again!) but 4 laps would have been around 2.7km. Although I can't be certain of the time, I suspect it was quicker than the last couple of OW sessions, I just felt more relaxed and smoother in the water.
More or less on track for 5k in August.
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