How was your swim today?

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Tri Mikey Sep 2008 1:27pm, 12 Sep 2008 2,170 posts	0 Tri Mikey Kitty Marie Curie Cancer Care organise a swimathon in April and people can do that. But i saw this as different, however after feedback from here and othersites it looks as if this is not an event that would be attractive. So back to the drawing board.
Kitty Sep 2008 1:41pm, 12 Sep 2008 1,973 posts	0 Kitty Ok Mikey - hope you work out something suitable!
RuthB2 Sep 2008 2:05pm, 12 Sep 2008 1,948 posts	0 RuthB2 My swim today was rubbish - how do I learn how to not swim like a drowning puppy? and how do I make it less boring?
Barky Sep 2008 2:08pm, 12 Sep 2008 5,016 posts	0 Barky 1 - get a good teacher 2- even I got bored of ploddin up & down a pool!
HappyG(rrr) Sep 2008 2:08pm, 12 Sep 2008 894 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) RuthB2, I'm going to my clubs tri wing on Sat am. They have a swim coach and I am reliably informed that they can cure my drowning puppy stroke. Could you do similar? Local swimming clubs were v. welcoming too. They said I could go a couple times for free and get advice, then join if I wanted to continue with them. Don't know how to cure boredom tho, sorry! (I'm too busy trying to work out how to breath, kick, not drown etc. to have luxury of boredom!)
RuthB2 Sep 2008 2:15pm, 12 Sep 2008 1,951 posts	0 RuthB2 Thanks, I may well look into some classes. The pool isn't too expesnive and is near my work so lunchtime swims work quite well...
stu8 Sep 2008 6:42pm, 12 Sep 2008 488 posts	0 stu8 TM sorry to hear the ideas not popular seems sound to me but again i'm no where near local i was going to suggest a more swimming orientated site for feedback but i'm presuming you've done that gotta say though respect the effort
stu8 Sep 2008 6:44pm, 12 Sep 2008 489 posts	0 stu8 oh yeah swimming bit dire in the morning though i was coming down with the current office lurg but did a quick 1K in the afternoon and was on fire luckily i was in a large volume of water
Tri Mikey Sep 2008 6:55pm, 12 Sep 2008 2,171 posts	0 Tri Mikey Thanks for the comments Stu. The whole purpose of this exercise was to gauge interest before I persue securing a venue, getting posters done, recruiting volunteers etc. But I have had negative responses to the idea so need to rethink.
SPR™ Sep 2008 12:44pm, 13 Sep 2008 498 posts	0 SPR™ 650m (26 x 25m) Breaststroke aerobic swim in about 18 minutes. Did some work on my front crawl before the work session. Friend came with me and said my arm exit out of the water was messy (lots of splash) so worked on the getting it cleaner and was better by the end. I also need to remember to rotate to lift the shoulder of the exiting arm.