When the last time you went swimming

A couple of weeks ago. There’s an outdoor pool opposite my work so I try and go at least once a week. Been too busy recently and the better the weather the more it is packed with morons though. Prefer it in the winter!

I wish there was a pool near me so I could swim on wfh days, that’d be easier. I feel it’s a little antisocial using 1/3 of my office day lunchtimes to disappear off to the pool (although it is lovely).

I’d be interested to know how far people swim that do it for exercise? I only manage about 1km in 30mins of actual swimming.

chaparral said:
Am always getting cramp in my feet when i swim :(

Seems to a popular problem when i google it
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Very common, I had this too and it comes back occasionally. Do you have flat feet (plantar fasciitis)? I do and got the beginnings of a heel spur which was very painful (could hardly walk!) and had to go to the physio for 6 months.
 
Last September in Hawaii, we were staying in the Hilton Wakiki Beach so went in the sea around dawn time as during the day it was too hot for me to go down to the beach, during the day I swam in the hotel pool.

Going on a Caribbean cruise in December so planning a bit of snorkelling on some of the islands and will be in the poo on the boat during the days at sea
 
Last September in a pool at the apartment we were staying at and in the sea on Diani beach, Mombasa.

Used to go regularly at the local leisure centre, but they stopped the early morning swims for some reason :(
 
Scam said:
I’d be interested to know how far people swim that do it for exercise? I only manage about 1km in 30mins of actual swimming.
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I try to go swimming a couple of times a week (in my local Nuffield health centre with a 25m pool). Given the terrible state of my knees swimming is the only kind of exercise I can do now...

I usually try to do between 2-3km but my pace is not much faster than yours (so between 60-90mins depending on the distance).

I much prefer open water swimming though, especially in the sea.
 
Scam said:
I’d be interested to know how far people swim that do it for exercise? I only manage about 1km in 30mins of actual swimming.
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2km, usually takes me around 45 minutes of swim time for that so still quite slow, used to do between 3 and 5km at a sub 20min/km pace quite happily, be a while if I ever get that back though.
 
FluffySheep said:
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Sheep dip doesn't count :p.

Probably not been in a pool since a holiday when my kids were young, so about 17-18 years ago. Used to take my daughter for swimming lessons at a local-ish sports centre but never joined. Sadly the community pool I used to go to as a kid was demolished and the land used for housing.
 
Selekt0r said:
I try to go swimming a couple of times a week (in my local Nuffield health centre with a 25m pool). Given the terrible state of my knees swimming is the only kind of exercise I can do now...
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Yeah running was probably what gave me the beginning of a heel spur. Swimming really is fantastic for exercise.
 
Jokester said:
First time I did it donkey years ago was in low light in the environmental pool, but it's been dumbed right down on the UKOOA cert over the last 20 years to a slow dunk and capsize in a nice warmish pool. They've only recently re-introduced having to get the windows off upside down after the Shetland crash where folk apparently didn't know how to remove the windows.
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I did it on Humberside in 1988 and the water wasn’t warm. Stated off gentle, but built up to the dark, full force drop and rotate.
 
Scam said:
Very common, I had this too and it comes back occasionally. Do you have flat feet (plantar fasciitis)? I do and got the beginnings of a heel spur which was very painful (could hardly walk!) and had to go to the physio for 6 months.
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I don't have flat feet of what i know of...

I seen some people say the feet cramp can be caused by the way or the position you kick your feet while swimming
 
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I've been a regular swimmer for years but am rapidly weaning off it. My body has become habituated to it. I'm far better off spending my time with an exercise I'm not habituated to (recently cycling), which has been a shock to my system. I'm not even out of breath after a long session swimming anymore, but I sure am battling a long hilly bike ride.

Swimming also got a lot more expensive in recent years. Not prohibitively so, but enough to bring on resentment compared to all the free exercise I can get.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
I did it on Humberside in 1988 and the water wasn’t warm. Stated off gentle, but built up to the dark, full force drop and rotate.
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Are you still doing it?

These days it's 3 goes.
1 - land on water and out the door into the liferaft
2 - land on water, sink, remove window and evac
3 - land on water, partial sink and roll over, remove window and evac.

You've also got the compressed air breather to deal with, but you're not allowed to use it underwater ( :cry: ) as technically it requires a divers certificate to use below 0.5m, so you just get to train with it on a shallow step.
 
Jokester said:
Are you still doing it?

These days it's 3 goes.
1 - land on water and out the door into the liferaft
2 - land on water, sink, remove window and evac
3 - land on water, partial sink and roll over, remove window and evac.

You've also got the compressed air breather to deal with, but you're not allowed to use it underwater ( :cry: ) as technically it requires a divers certificate to use below 0.5m, so you just get to train with it on a shallow step.
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Nah, I only lasted a year working oil and gas. Seismic survey outfit I worked for could organise a **** up in a brewery and had me working longer trios with much shorter shore time.
 
Took my son yesterday to basic lessons where I go in with him but I just walk about. Swam on holiday recently but only messing about in the sea and some short swims out on my own. Haven't been to the pool for a swim on my own in probably 10 years but go as a family relatively regularly.
 
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