How was your swim today?

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Metro_Nome 3 Oct 9:00pm, 3 Oct 2024 7,674 posts	0 Metro_Nome Hi all, browsing fetch and saw this thread so thought I’d pop in. After not swimming since the pools shut a second time for COVID in December 2020, my costume has come back out of retirement due to an injury that looks like stopping me running for a while I’d forgotten how much I enjoy it, and the fact there is a pool 5 minutes from my house is very handy (even if the fact it’s 20m means lots of laps!) I’ve been back at it a week and up to 2.5km in 68 minutes today so I’ve decided to aim for an Ironman distance swim- a good distraction from not being able to run! I look forward to learning lots from the thread
Northern Exile 3 Oct 9:01pm, 3 Oct 2024 10,504 posts	0 Northern Exile 🙂
Will Crash 12 Oct 6:59pm, 12 Oct 2024 1,208 posts	0 Will Crash Swim Smooth. Excellent choice
Metro_Nome 15 Oct 10:39pm, 15 Oct 2024 7,724 posts	0 Metro_Nome Has anybody suffered from dry eyes after swimming and got any tips? I’m doing quite long distances and finding my eyes quite dry and tired (I do wear goggles)
LindsD 15 Oct 10:46pm, 15 Oct 2024 70,384 posts	0 LindsD I do. Fake tears can help but they sting a bit after chlorine I have these visiondirect.co.uk
Will Crash 16 Oct 11:07am, 16 Oct 2024 1,211 posts	0 Will Crash 200 metre warm up 40x 50 metre Z3 efforts with a 5 second rest 200 metre cool down, feigning drowning End up at work wandering into the office still wearing my crocs and not work boots
GimmeMedals 16 Oct 1:56pm, 16 Oct 2024 27,741 posts	0 GimmeMedals I've just dug out my Swim Smooth book and will look for tips to improve my swimming. I've not been for ages and I'm very slow. None of it comes very natural to me yet, though I can keep going for a fair while since having swimming lessons a couple of years ago. I'm using a 16m pool now and that spoils the flow a bit, but it's not busy so I can at least swim up and down without interruption.
Little Nemo 23 Oct 8:42pm, 23 Oct 2024 15,648 posts	0 Little Nemo Did 750m this morning in a mostly empty lane. I really need to go more often, only went today as I booked the session the day before and I didn't want to waste £4.30!
LindsD 23 Oct 8:44pm, 23 Oct 2024 70,544 posts	0 LindsD Good tactic!
Metro_Nome 24 Oct 3:53pm, 24 Oct 2024 7,743 posts	0 Metro_Nome @Little Nemo well done! I paid for a few months of my pool membership upfront to make sure I would keep using it @LindsD thank you for the recommendation. Once I stopped squirting these on my face and actually managed to get some in my eyes they are definitely helping