Swimmy observations

[andygates]

1: Being first in the pool is almost as good as breaking virgin snow. It's delicously naughty to mess up that mirror-smooth water. Especially with my thrashing-galvanism style front crawl which, incidentally, is coming along. Managed two clean lengths among the warm-up, testing and breathing accidents. Cough, glark.

After my 7am swim (I know, who am I and what have I done with Andy?) I fired up the telly for some Commonwealth Games swimmy inspiration to accompany the mandatory weekend-morning fancy coffee. This leads to observations 2 and 3, viz:

2: Competitive female swimmers are incredibly, eye-grabbingly, stupendously hot.

3: Disability swimming classes are both impressive and gloriously weird. Blind swimmers wear blackout masks to make sure they're properly blind, making them look like squeaky-clean versions of Stark from Farscape. The idea of Stark competing in a pool is so bizarre that I can't shift it and it will go to my grave...

Comments

[xeeny.livejournal.com]

Good to see the training's coming along well. I've been doing some work down in Chedder pool with a tri club that Paul and Elaine belong to. There's a *lot* of technique in swimming. A good tip, I have found, is not to breath in water. Simple, but harder than it sounds.

Anyway, will be stopping this as driving to Cheddar and back every week is well, bad. Going to start with a Bristol tri club after the Zurich marathon. My last long run today: somewhere over 22 miles (uggh). Not 26.5 however, and the idea of running any further makes me scared. Hopefully I will be spurred on by the enthusiasm of the crowd...

[xeeny.livejournal.com]

BTW - with regard to ankles: if it hurts, take it easy. You might miss one race, but you'll miss many more if you run and fuck yourself up properly.

[sciolist.livejournal.com]

I utterly agree wrt. female swimmers. Very good shoulders.