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 stopped the day a guy had a seizure on the side of the pool, fell in, and had to be rescued by the lifeguard. . . The ambulance came, the man was taken to the hospital, and while some folks started swimming again, I just couldn't get there. Somehow, it felt disrespectful.
Glad to hear it! That would mess with my swim too.
My brain is usually what interferes with a good swim. Sometimes I am so emotional about something totally unrelated to swimming that I just cannot let it go & get in a good swim. This is one of the good things about swimming at the crack of dawn - very little has occurred at that time of day for me to think about other than swimming!! Swimming at lunchtime or in the evening however, is another story all together. When I have those kind of days, albeit very infrequently, I usually get in an 800 or so and then just call it a day.
I used to do that swimming solo too, if no one else came to push me, I was not capable of pushing myself. Now that I don't really have much choice, I have learned how to push myself, even without the benefit of a clock, if necessary. I wish I had developed this ability years ago, because it is very liberating! Swimming should not be like tennis, where one is dependent upon a partner to play - it generally is an individual sport, but I will agree - I love having someone to chase & race! I am usually much happier with workouts that include friends.
I stopped the day a guy had a seizure on the side of the pool, fell in, and had to be rescued by the lifeguard. . . The ambulance came, the man was taken to the hospital, and while some folks started swimming again, I just couldn't get there. Somehow, it felt disrespectful.
Glad to hear it! That would mess with my swim too.
My brain is usually what interferes with a good swim. Sometimes I am so emotional about something totally unrelated to swimming that I just cannot let it go & get in a good swim. This is one of the good things about swimming at the crack of dawn - very little has occurred at that time of day for me to think about other than swimming!! Swimming at lunchtime or in the evening however, is another story all together. When I have those kind of days, albeit very infrequently, I usually get in an 800 or so and then just call it a day.
I used to do that swimming solo too, if no one else came to push me, I was not capable of pushing myself. Now that I don't really have much choice, I have learned how to push myself, even without the benefit of a clock, if necessary. I wish I had developed this ability years ago, because it is very liberating! Swimming should not be like tennis, where one is dependent upon a partner to play - it generally is an individual sport, but I will agree - I love having someone to chase & race! I am usually much happier with workouts that include friends.
