Did multiple 50 yard swims and then hit a 75m non stop finally! Working on breathing style helped a lot.
The last 50m swim I did by kicking from the hip and also trying to really pull with the arms. The arms get tired fast when you really try and pull hard with them!! Getting better, but after only 40 meters I am slapping the water with my hands and my hips drop in the water. I need lessons, but cant justify them. Hello Google and youtube!!
Might help if I got in the pool more than 2 or 3 times a year. Last summer I went to Cumberland on the 2nd to last day, got rained out and couldnt go the last day.
This winter being a college student again I hope to use the Notre Dame pool and weight room.
I am gonna have a huge celebration if I ever swim 100m non stop and do a flip turn without filling my nose with water.
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- Ray Huang
- Hello fellow racers. I am a racer from old back again for a 2nd try. I raced in the late 80's and early 90's before a decade in the Hotel and Restaurant business and 70 to 90 hour weeks stopped my racing. Finally in the summer of 2006 I got the bicycle bug again and it wasnt even a few rides when I said "I'm gonna race again!!" So here I am on my way back to a healthier lifestyle and what I love almost more than anything else, Racing!!!
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Nice job Ray....You have to breathe out hard when doing a flip turn to not get water in your sinuses, that can cause major problems if you don't.
If you take lessons it will help so much, swimming is all technique and if not done right you get into bad habits and they are very hard to break out of. Keep on swimming though, when swimming well and the technique is good, it's like riding your bike with a nice tailwind.
Bill-thanks for the advice. I checked out the pool at NDC and its small, but nice. I can swin for free so hope to make tht part of my winter routine. Ride there, swim, maybe study till my hair dries then commute home all winter.
uh oh. you're not going geek on us, are you?
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