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Just looked, current lake temp 16.1c Silly opening times for swimming ! 6am to 8.30am or 5.30pm to 8.30pm ! Thats no good for me....

Apparently the sea temp down here was 8c the other day !!! Dont believe that, but it may be more like 10c. I went in again yesterday and it seemed even colder....

Dooks - Hows the wetsuit ? Have you tried it out yet ?

I wonder what temp those lakes are that i posted about earlier... ? Wondering whether to go somewhere this bank holiday coming for a swim..... Anyone else ?

Yo !
Went in the sea off Praa sands (west cornwall) yesteday. No wetsuit, just cosy and cap. It took a while to get in the first time, but once i was in it was lovely ! I reckon around 12 or 13c ??? Only stayed in for about 10 minutes each time.

Hope to go in again a few times this week..... make the most of it ! :)

Today pool was about 34 c !! had too keep stopping to drink.

900-fc
900-fc
600-back
300-fc with pullbuoy, breath on 5
300-back
6x30 kick
4x30 fly kick

Played........ too hot ! Am officially now on holiday, woohoo, time to rest !

Today

1200-fc
600-fc hard pace
300-back
300-fc with fins
300-back
300-fly drill with fins
300-fc catch drill with pullbuoy, breathing on 5.
4x30 - kick
6x30 - fc/back with fins drill ( 3 fc roll onto 4 back roll etc ) on to 5 fc roll onto 4 back.

cool down, play for a bit :)

Hmmm bit more than I intended to do..............whistles

Open water training, £5 ! bargain !
http://www.openwaterswim.co.uk/

(thats £5 to swim, not for coaching aswell..... )

what about any of these ? I have 5mm on chest area etc and 2mm on arms, lovely and buoyant !

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/orca/swim/wetsuits/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=orca%20wetsuits&utm_campaign=orca&referid=googwig&utm_adgroup=Orca_Wetsuits

The Kaisai or S3 are fine !

what do you guys reckon to this?

https://secure.shopdesq.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product&ProductID=18014&OrgID=7529

i know you should really try first but... there's only a handfull of sizes and i'm pretty sure which one i'm in. i can always return it if it doesn't fit anyway.

Where are the details of the wetsuit ? What mm is it ? The shoulders are coated, not so flexible ?

just got back from masters. slightly shambolic and sparsely populated session. shoulders stiff after saturday and i was lacking verve. fly set didn't help.

warmup, something sprints then:

16x25
8x50
4x100
1x200

all swum full stroke fly was enough to knock the fight out of me.

as the coach wasn't there we reverted to doing medley drill to break the monotony of the yet more fly he had down for us.

won the final freestyle sprints at the end of the evening though which was cool. i'm not far off going up another lane i don't think. another couple of months and i might chance my arm in the "top lanes" for a session.

Won the sprints ?! I think the lacking of verve was in your head !??

I swum Tuesday and Thursday as normal this week and have definitely been more fatigued, by half way through my session.
Time for a change this weekend !

from the London Triathlon website:

yes, I read the t&c. But I just wondered why they have made them compulsory ? What is the reason ?

Maybe, it gives an unfair advantage to some elite ? The time you spend trying to get out of the damn things, must give you a minute or so on your bike !

Or could be a temperature related thing ? What temp is the thames in summer ?

Why are you not allowed to compete without a wetsuit ???

did i post this yet?

very good australian site i just recently came across.

http://www.swimsmooth.com/

Errr no, I did !

:)

Make sure youre not alone ! Bastard to get in and out off, last time I had to get my 7 year old to help me out !!
Oh dear !

Yay, Hampton court open air pool is awesome !

Dooks - Hows the wetsuit ? Did you do a Kick-Ass in your bedroom !?

Im off to Cornwall next week and am going to take mine down for a Dip.... hopefully ! :)

well done mate, and nick nack. I am impressed by you both!

Thanks adroit :)

I had 3 in my lane, one 14 year old boy, who lapped me about 20 x and a really elderly lady who was swimming with no goggles and her eyes closed ! She kept swimming on the wrong side and one time she caught me with her nails, i just remember a sharp pain on my left but carried on, luckily she left after 50 laps, then it was me and the kid doing 5k, which was nice as he pushed me !

When finished later on, noticed a 3 inch nail scratch under my right arm !! Pics to prove ??!! :)

We should all hook up in the summer months for a cycle, swim and beer picnic !

At a wedding now. Pissed as a wizard. Still have goggle marks. Pow!

Booya ! Think im still pissed - went to a friends in Borough, sat on the roof staring at the shard with my bottle of wine :)

Had a major dehydration headache all night.... anyone for a schwim ??

Wicked time Dookie ! Im glad its only once a year ! Laterzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hey ! Not a happy Bunny ! I basically believe I did it in 1 hour 34 mins, but someone ( yes you the person im talking about !) must have missed counted and I had an extra 10 or so.

I got to 108and he told me then i started counting, so i counted 20, then checked with him and should have been on 128 and he said no its 122 !!

Anyway, I feel like i did an extra 10 or so laps. Otherwise it was good, not really too tired, just my lower back was aching past 130 ish....

off out for more booze and possible argument now ! :(

Cheers Kp ! Am just having a hearty bowl of porridge ! Woke up at 6.30am, bloody tired already !

Will report back later,.................... if I havent buggered straight off to a pub garden ! :D

dooks - You get masters - pay per session !! What more could you ask for !? ;)

I need a free way to keep my left arm as fit as my right arm, any suggestions?

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At the moment I spend about £70 a month all on swimming ! I am Stoopid - I keep paying for each session ( non member) . I should have got a swim London card ages ago as its £26 a month and covers 40 pools !

I too am getting bored and seem to be plateauing/maintaining fitness, so after this weekend I am joining my local Masters swim club. Time to be pushed again !

Plus cycling = free
Core work at home = free
Should start doing press ups and tricep dips at home again all free !

A girl goes up to her dad and says:

"Daddy daddy can i get a Barbie doll??"

Daddy replies "Only if you suck my dick darling!"

Disgusted the girl walks away, but soon returns again:

"Daddy daddy can i get a Barbie doll??"

Daddy replies "Baby girl, only if you suck my dick"

Appauled, the girl turns around, but once again soon returns

"Daddy! Please please please can i get a Barbie Doll?"

Daddy points to his groin and the girl, fully defeated unzips her dads flies and gets busy

"Whoah daddy! Your dick tastes like shit!"

Daddy replies "Well, earlier on your baby brother asked for a new bicycle"

sorry.

How the fuck is that funny !!!!??

Apologies, I was thinking of my local 30m pool which is 50 x and decided to minus 10 instead of add !! (which I should know, because my thursday lunch swim is in a 25m pool !!)

Glorious day ! - wish i was sciving off and playing about in hampton pool right now !

Jaitch - What is your main stroke ? Can you do breast stroke or front crawl ?

This is basically 40 laps of a normal 25 metre pool..... but in open water ?

ok so. advice needed here. I might have accidently agreed to take part in the Virgin London triathlon. I will be doing the 1500 metre swim. in the thames. I was last in a pool 4 years ago. have only ever been in the pool when I was younger and that was always mucking about not actually swimming.
my question? is it realistic that I can be train myself up to do 1500m in time (31st July) without: any prior experience of proper swimming, no formal lessons (either prior or planned), any good swimming style (tend to use arms to pull and no good at using legs to push), very little time to actually get to the pool between now and then (once maybe twice a week)