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
There are not too many things that can zap my desire to swim. I usually try to make the best of my time in and swim around folks who are going different speeds, and I am used to the warmer water that I cherish times that I can get in colder pools.
That being said, here are two things recently that have distracted me:
1. Our pool is going to be closed this summer to rebuild the walls that enclose the pool. Well, the town was in and had two guys on ladders removing the panels near the ceiling - it was just gross lokking on the other side of those pretty whitewashed walls, and I did not want to breathe any of that stuff in. Good thing it will be fixed!
2. I get annoyed when something happens when splitting the lane and then ... Some slower swimmers will move into the lane from the medium lane, and then more follow, and soon there are six people circling in the fast lane and two splitting the medium lane. :bump:
:2cents:
There are not too many things that can zap my desire to swim. I usually try to make the best of my time in and swim around folks who are going different speeds, and I am used to the warmer water that I cherish times that I can get in colder pools.
That being said, here are two things recently that have distracted me:
1. Our pool is going to be closed this summer to rebuild the walls that enclose the pool. Well, the town was in and had two guys on ladders removing the panels near the ceiling - it was just gross lokking on the other side of those pretty whitewashed walls, and I did not want to breathe any of that stuff in. Good thing it will be fixed!
2. I get annoyed when something happens when splitting the lane and then ... Some slower swimmers will move into the lane from the medium lane, and then more follow, and soon there are six people circling in the fast lane and two splitting the medium lane. :bump:
:2cents:
