Swim Technique/Storms/Table

[legalmoose]

I'm hoping I can do the "breathe every other side" thing at the lake on the 19th, it'll make my swimming much more even and comfortable. I did some practice of breathing all on one side and that went okay until I had to try and look up to see where I was going, which is just plain awkward.

Sticky outside. Yum. :)

The storms last night cooled the outside down nicely, which in turn helped cool the inside of the apartment, thus making sleep much, much more comfortable.

My massage table arrived yesterday and is currently set up in the middle of the living room. The instructions left out a valuable step, both on set-up and take-down -- how to extend the legs so it's more than 2 feet off the floor. :-p Thankfully that was pretty easy to figure out, but still, when that's a major point of the table, that the height is adjustable, don't you think you'd put that in the instructions? Rule #2 strikes again.

Comments

[die7fox.livejournal.com]

I'm proud of you for summoning up the courage to swim in a lake. I'm so spoiled on swimming pools that I can't swim anywhere I can't see the bottom.

[legalmoose]

It's not so bad, once you get used to the whole "no black line" thing. :) And kinda necessary for this whole 'triathlon' kick I'm on. *grin*

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting point - back when I was doing triathlons, I had not yet mastered the whole bilateral breathing thing, so I was always navigating from one side. The idea is, of course, that you navigate from horizon landmarks at the side, not ahead of you, so that you never have to look "up" to see where you are. It seems to me that bilateral breathing would make this require that much more cognition, to keep track of a landmark on each side (or the landmarks one side, but you see them far less often)

By the way, do expect to get more inimate with perfect strangers than you would expect at a sleazy bathhouse on a saturday night; you'll kick and be kicked, grope and be groped, (all unintentional, and all in the name of "the stroke").