TriSport Fetch: The smell of 220

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EvilPixie
that's my thinking! I kick at the end of an OW swim to try and stop the wobbles getting up and out but other than that they don't do much!
Aug 2021
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fraggle
MA

I found that working on my upper body strength and core worked helped with swim speed. Maybe Ankh can do us a masterclass sometime ?
Aug 2021
9:38am, 3 Aug 2021
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EvilPixie
Upper body and core are on my hit list!

Love the idea of an AC master class
Aug 2021
9:49am, 3 Aug 2021
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LindsD
I meant more that diving leg kick is from the hips. I don't think my slowness is down to strength. I'm sure it's efficiency. My breaststroke is so much faster. I feel like I must be doing something fundamentally wrong. I am so much slower at fc than *everyone* else in the lake. Every time. I am not less fit or strong than *all* of those people.
Aug 2021
9:59am, 3 Aug 2021
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EvilPixie
yeah I belief it is kick from the hip
I'm stupid slow but we do it
my BS is slower still! and exhausting
Aug 2021
10:05am, 3 Aug 2021
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GregP
My bison, Sophie? My boyfriend's spaniel? My Basingstoke sink-estate?
Aug 2021
10:08am, 3 Aug 2021
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EvilPixie
bloody swimming?
Aug 2021
10:08am, 3 Aug 2021
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GregP
baked salmon? Baking salmon probably takes longer than a length of swimming.
Aug 2021
10:09am, 3 Aug 2021
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GregP
I've not found baking salmon to be particularly arduous though. Perhaps she's doing it wrong?
Aug 2021
10:11am, 3 Aug 2021
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Sweetie
Linds - if you're really not sure what you're doing wrong (with swimming not baking salmon) it might be worth finding somewhere that does video analysis. I did that last year pre-Covid and it picked up several things in my stroke that I was completely oblivious about, it was really helpful.

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