What makes you (or makes you want) to stop your swim workout, aside from being tired or feeling hurt?
- Sharing Lanes: Sometimes when I go to share a lane with someone, I'll get in, they'll do another lap, and get out. I feel guilty. I have on a couple occasions gotten out when people want to split lanes with me, especially if they're annoying and touch me/swim into me.
- Team Practices: I don't know why, but if I'm not part of the team practice that's in the pool, I don't want to be there. Maybe I just feel lazy next to them.
- Thinking about food: Food (particularly donuts for some reason) makes me feel sick while swimming. I've thrown up in my mouth on several occasions due to thinking about food while swimming. I love food, I love thinking about food, but not while swimming.
- Little kid swim lessons: The last time i swam next to this I got smacked in the face with an oar to an inflatable boat.
- The creepy middle aged guy that hangs out at the end of my lane to stretch when there are 7 open lanes. Wearing briefs, giant goggles, and covered in hair. Doing odd exercises like thrusting the ground or stretching hs hip flexors widely on the diving blocks. :bolt:
- Broken pace clocks
I am working on not letting anything kill my swim (except, of course, legitimate pain or illness). It's too easy to let myself get worked up over something and lose my focus. I generally regret it later.
I'm working on the same thing mainly because I have a hard enough time trying to make 5-swims / week anyway! :)
That being said...
when the pool is so crowded that there are at least two people per lane, and they're all split between fast/slow, or slow/slow, and circle swimming becomes a challenge at best, I find it difficult to see the point in swimming because most of it ends up as garbage yards anyway.
Though if someone was blowing snott all over the end of the pool, or someone with open sores all over their body was in my lane, I may just have to excuse myself! :bolt:
I am working on not letting anything kill my swim (except, of course, legitimate pain or illness). It's too easy to let myself get worked up over something and lose my focus. I generally regret it later.
I'm working on the same thing mainly because I have a hard enough time trying to make 5-swims / week anyway! :)
That being said...
when the pool is so crowded that there are at least two people per lane, and they're all split between fast/slow, or slow/slow, and circle swimming becomes a challenge at best, I find it difficult to see the point in swimming because most of it ends up as garbage yards anyway.
Though if someone was blowing snott all over the end of the pool, or someone with open sores all over their body was in my lane, I may just have to excuse myself! :bolt:
