Swimming

I'm a swimmer in as much as I like messing about in water... I've always played with boats, so a bit of swimming is an inevitable and fun thing....

However, ploughing up and down a pool to get the miles up leaves me stone cold.... I can't cope with the boredom! 

I don't mind going in water but can't be doing with all those lengths. I can swim ok but not for a long time,
again not a massive fan of chlorinated pools but I should make the effort to go more often as there is a small ish pool within walking distance of me and to be honest I could do with the exercise, or at least my back could.

I like swimming in the sea when I get the chance but normally wear a wetsuit (a £20 cheapie I got off amazon 3 years ago) as it's usually so bloody cold. 
If I'm away in the van the sea is also a  good excuse for a wash . 

The other thing we have  round this way are some lovely, clear streams, but cold is an understatement for them, I tried paddling / sitting in one in a wood the other morning but was numbingly cold. 

Hell yeah. Love swimming.

Competed at junior level and did some masters stuff but ..to quote from an old swimming info ad 'It's just not my scene man' (they seemed to want more sprinters and I excel at distance).
Taught and coached for councils since I qualified at 17.
Had my own business for a decade teaching 1 to 1, running adult and child classes, aquafit and snorkelling and training swimming teachers for the STA.

Neurologist basically stuffed my business by changing my drugs, (I needed a new adjunct and it seemed like the best choice at th time - hah!) I started fainting and getting visual hallucinations (like coloured tinsel), enough warning to get out the water but unsafe to teach others.
That was when I first went back to uni.
I ocassionally taught people who I knew who got in touch once the drugs were sorted.
When I was in 1st yr at aberdeen i taught my dentists kids in first year, until the pool staff asked if I was pro. They don't like that - no more lessons for the kids or fun teaching for me.
I could have joined the uni swimming & waterpolo society and given lessons for free (I'd been teaching longer than ALL of them had been alive and teaching themselves but I would have to shadow... my qualifications were updated in 2014. Yes, having to shadow as a society newbie grated as I had ran teacher training courses, but not at the uni - and 'uni time' seems to be a temporal vacuum to some. I could actually - as a tutor, shadowing, tell the girl I was shadowing what she was doing wrong as a swimming teacher!!!
Anyway, they changed my freaking drugs again and the descision was taken out of my hands. I can't swim when I'm dizzy I don't know about you.

anyway, I have 2 deferred exams (the drug that caused the dizziness crap etc) but in th meantime, at home thinking about getting back to swimming.

I get what you mean about lengths. I collected distance badges as a kid. I truly think that my mother is most proud of the fact that I could swim 2 miles by the time I was 7.

Yeah I like swimming. When I count how many swimsuits I have I have to remember that they were work suits for me for a very very long time.

Distance is my thing, too, DM. I find it quite soothing. I used to be a triathlete and was pretty good, although i have never loked like any kind of athlete. I prefered lake swims to sea swims though, the sea has so much raw sewage pumped into it just offshore- I could count on a stomach kr ear/nose/throat infection a couple of days later.

At the moment, it is so long since I have done anything much, I am purposefully not counting lengths, just swimming for twenty mi utes/half an hour. It doesn't have to be fast, either. That will come when I get back into the breathing and technique again. Anyway, fast is relative. If 'you' can swim a mile 4 minutes fastwr than me, who cares? Not me. I am only in competition with myself these days. 😁

I love swimming Corvus,learnt at an early age too.I don't swim that often but when I do,I do tend to swim laps rather than lop around.I too enjoy the meditative state you can put yourself in while doing some laps.Ocean swimming is good too,but thats mainly just lopping around,floating on my back,with a few strokes in between.I keep meaning to go wild swimming,and should go this summer.I'd also love to learn how to surf.