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I did my base time in a different pool from usual, and haven't managed to get a better percentage on any one of my timed swims since then!
It's not lap counting, and the differences aren't huge. I was getting closer to base % at around the 200m mark, but am now drifting further away again which is particularly disappointing as I'd expected to be relatively better at the longer swims.
I'm not looking forward to the 1500 now.
Good luck on Sunday Parky.
Go Team Parky
Thanks you 2. I had the worst swim sesh ever last night after 2 weeks of progress, so feeling a bit sh*te.
I was going to break it down mentally like you (and Waff) suggested Barley and Schmunks I will see how I am at 24 and if not half-dead, will try to improve on the last 8.
PMA, Parky. PMA!
16:27 - versus a 8:15 for 400m tonight ( and an original 9:00 odd). Improvements for me are definitely all in the turns.
FFS
Meface
Here's a PMA thought for you Parky:
I had a rubbish session at tri club swim on Monday but my best swim for months yesterday. You will therefore have a great swim on Sunday
Hello all - I have no idea what PMA means ... ?
Unfortunately I didn't make the 800M swim this morning. A neighbour was having a party and the noise from smokers (I presume) going outside to chat loudly kept waking me up all night.
Is it possible to add the round 5 time over the next couple of weeks as well as doing the longer distance or have I completely missed the deadline to be included?
Another factor stopping me swimming is that I seem to have an allergy on my legs. I'm presuming it's from swimming. They are v itchy and this has happened before, so I need to do what I did previously which is not to shower straight after swimming as the heat aggravates it. I might stay away from the pool for a week to let it die down. I also developed a rash on my face yesterday (possibly not connected).
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Sorry to hear you couldn't make it. Unfortunately, I don't think you can post a time once the deadline has passed. I think the system is locked down for that distance and moves on to the new one
As Schmunks says, after today the distance will be locked down so updates won't be possible.
When I swim at the Kinswood pool I get irritations Parky (nose snivvels and itchy legs) so I rub some Eumovate ointment on my shins, works pretty well and stops it straight away.
I raised this on another thread sometime ago and the consensus of opinion is to use some sort of barrier cream before getting in the pool. Popular recommendations were aqueous (sp?) cream, E45, bio-oil, or Johnsons Baby Lotion.
I suffer quite badly from eczema and I find the chlorine dries my skin out really easily. If I use too heavy a cream before getting in the pool I seem to overheat and so the itching is actually worse than having the dry skin if I did nothing. But I now use Bio-Oil as it absorbs really quickly and there is no greasy residue. After I have showered I put on a thin layer of aqueous cream.
Now stop making excuses and get to the pool. You have until midnight.
There's only 1 laned swim at the pool today and that was the early morning sesh. I won't get another chance. Also, this itching is v annoying and I don't want to aggravate the rash on my face. I have actually got scratch marks like a cat's been at me in a couple of places and this has made the itching start to burn. I'm going to give myself a week off, use some pure tea tree body wash and moisturise. I've also recently started shaving my legs after years of waxing, so I'm going to try to avoid doing that as I think it hasn't helped. Plus, I'm crap at it and have cut myself recently trying to do it.
Can I ditch this attempt (but do it anyway without logging the time) and then move on to the next challenge or am I now unable to log any more scores?
Definitely no problems skipping a round. Think there's more who've missed at least one round than not.
Rash sounds nasty, hope you manage to find something to clear it and, more importantly, stop it coming back.
Parky - cover yourself on goose fat a la channel swim
Yup, I missed a few rounds where I forgot
Waff - you didn't make me feel worse. I just feel bad for all you others on here who've suffered with the swimmers' itch and I'm trying not to think of Gaz with a 'shrivelled nose'
. Earlier on I felt like that that bloke on There's Something About Mary who comes out in hives and keeps scratching and twitching.
My friend's given me some tea tree antiseptic cream and I've slathered it all over. I smell lovely!
I heard that Ian Thorpe was allergic to chlorine and when I U-tubed a vid of him (purely for analytical purposes
) beating Van Den Hoogenband and Phelps, I noticed he wore a full body suit.
EDIT: Oops read back and Gaz wrote sniffles, not shrivels.
Many thanks to the forumite who pointed out that I had entered a rather splendid 800m time.
Unfortunately, I am a long way off from showing such prowess and have asked for my time to be changed.
Rebecca Adlington is not my alias
Anyone else finding this?
I do agree with you about the overall benefit of taking part.
Still hoping for a slightly better % in my final 400m, though I doubt I'll reach my base time as I think I cocked that one up by swimming in an odd pool and must have calculated the distance wrongly.
There's always next year!
I'm still not getting the mahoosive percentage increases that some people are having.
Just how can you practically double the distance yet knock so much off the time. In a fortnight !!!