First time this season. I’m woefully behind in my swim prep for the June 1 triathlon. The good news is I 
swam 500 yards this morning and it felt great to be in the pool. Now that the temps are warming up and Spring is really here, getting out of bed at 5:30 a.m. and driving to the pool for a 6 a.m. swim doesn’t seem so bad.
Although, I had to share a lane with another guy whose swim stroke seemed quite “wide.” Similar to Larry Craig’s wide stance, this guy had a wide stroke and kept bumping me when we passed each other in the lane.
One other problem. I wear Zoomers during part of my swim regimen and the fin cuts across the joint on both of my big toes. After 30 minutes in the water, the Zoomers had rubbed the skin of the big toe joint leaving both toes red and raw right on top. Ouch! I need to fix that.
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Indoors or out? Please say in.
I’ve been riding quite a bit but haven’t been able to get myself into a pool at all. Life might calm down in the next month or so where I can actually schedule some swim time. keep up the training. ~jules
Kristiane: Yes – my swimming happens at an indoor pool!
Jules: good luck to you. Swimming is my weak leg of the tri, but it’s also the shortest leg, which means I find myself passing a lot of peeps on the bike.
For what it’s worth: Water is my element.
This interested me because swimming is such a part of my life. My mom had us in swimming lessons when I was 5 and my sister was 3. We continued that all through our elementary school days. We lived in an apartment complex for a year or so and my sister and I spent every spare moment in the pool, mostly underwater. At this same time I was in Scouts and earned the swimming and lifesaving merit badges (I thought I was going to drown in one of the tests). I still swim like crazy but just for fun and I do it in the surf.
Hey, wait a minute . . . don’t you have a lake or two up there?