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FishEveryone: the Fetchland swimming wire

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CasB
CasB
Mar 2024
1:13pm, 15 Mar 2024
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Good luck with the session Daz. I can't programme my garmin for swimming but find that keeping careful count of lengths (Garmin will total the distance for me) and using the red hand on the swim clock to time recoveries works well enough.

Nellers, I struggle with the 'fist' drills too - I sink far more! Really have to focus on good rotation. My instructor currently has me using a paddle held backwards so it forces a straight hand and wrist (I guess a version of that weird finis trainer from a few pages back) but this is to stop me bailing out of my pull too early, as the paddle means it will suddenly get a lot harder if I do.

Also realised during this morning's swim that my recently-acquired achy lower leg may not be a running thing but due to my newfound love of fins...going to try using them for a few specific drills only and see what happens.
Sushi.
Sushi.
Mar 2024
2:26pm, 15 Mar 2024
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Who's up for the Fetch virtual challenge this year?
LindsD
LindsD
Mar 2024
2:30pm, 15 Mar 2024
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Ooh. Me.
CasB
CasB
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3:05pm, 15 Mar 2024
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Ooh yes. Me too 😀
Nellers
Nellers
Mar 2024
3:11pm, 15 Mar 2024
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I wasn't swimming at all for the last one. What sort of distance is it usually? I'm probably in whatever it is, though, to be fair.
Sushi.
Sushi.
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3:35pm, 15 Mar 2024
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I could tell you exactly the distance and the route as I've done it this year..........
Sushi.
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3:36pm, 15 Mar 2024
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But I won't....... 🤣
Sushi.
Sushi.
Mar 2024
3:37pm, 15 Mar 2024
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Sushi.
All will be revealed soon.

All I will say, Nellers, is you won't have a problem completing it.
Sushi.
Sushi.
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3:39pm, 15 Mar 2024
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Last yrs was about 42miles I think
Nellers
Nellers
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3:43pm, 15 Mar 2024
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Oh, fair enough then. It'll be nice to finish one of these for a change. I'm almost at the last-but-one checkpoint on the 2023 bike challenge after my spin at lunchtime! ;-)

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