Project Valkyrie: waterlog

[truepenny]

LAPS: 34
YARDS: 1700
MILES: 0.97
TOTAL MILES: 282.76
MILES LEFT TO RIVENDELL: 175.24
NOTES: (1) When one is walking into the locker room at the pool is a sub-optimal time for a hair elastic to break.
(2) Still can't do a kick-turn to save my proverbial life.
(3) I seem to have left my swimming cap in the locker room. Botheration.

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Today I managed a total of ten continuous laps of freestyle (6 in the middle and four at the end), by which I mean laps of freestyle without having to hang on the side of the pool and pant at the end of every lap. Mostly this seems to be a matter of forcing myself to SLOW DOWN. I am not built to be a sprinter by either land or water. So all those laps with the pull-buoy helped me get a metronome going, which I then managed to carry through, as I said, 6 and 4 continuous laps. By the end of the sixth lap I was getting pretty disorganized, so it was back to the pull-buoy and the metronome. And by the end of the fourth lap, it was time to go home. *g*

I realize this doesn't look like much, but from in here it feels like a real achievement.

Comments

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Have no fear--I had...um...many years of swim instruction, including three separate lifeguard training classes, and I still cannot do a kick turn. I even had five years of ballet so you'd *think* I had some idea of what to do with my body in space.



You would, however, be wrong.

[danibel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the ten consecutive laps! That is a significant milestone.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you find to be challenging about flip turns in particular?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, sometimes I get water up my nose, but mostly, I don't judge where the wall is properly, so I'm too far away or in too close, or I hit it crooked. Today I hit it crooked and got water up my nose, which was just lovely.

[danibel.livejournal.com]

If it means anything, we've all been there. Even experienced/competitive swimmers miss turns regularly. I hope you feel a little more comfortable with the turns once you've reached your distance goal! Good luck!