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So, I've been swimming on/off for 15 years now. I started in college, swam for the school and have been with Masters ever since. I spent a few years away from the pool, but was in the ocean every day surfing. Moved away from the ocean and have been in the pool religiously for the past 4 years, never missing a day unless the pool was closed for maintenance, it was a holiday, or I had a Doctor's appt.
I follow a coach's workout everyday. I am in the water for about 90 minutes daily and am always changing up strokes, drills, etc. You would think that there's no way I could get bored in the water, but, it's happening.
2012 has been a tough year for me. I was admitted into the hospital in ICU with severe pneumonia, severe sepsis, multiple organ failure and I even had a stroke. This was in April. I was in a coma for 21 days. I died on the ER table and had to be resuscitated. I pulled through and was eventually admitted to an inpatient care facility to learn to walk, talk, feed myself, etc. I harassesed the therapists daily to let me get in the water!!! I could NOT wait to get back in the pool!!!
Well, June comes and I'm in the water. Start back slow with easy workouts. 1200-1600 meters max. I eventually work up to my usual 2500-3000/day. Then, I notice in Sept., I am literally dreading going in for my workout. I put my fins on and coast through the whole thing just to get done and get out. WAY not normal for me.
Now, I have severe Rheumatoid Arthritis. I swim cause it is supposedly the easiest on the joints, but lately, I'm having problems with swimming and my RA. I flare and can't move in the water, which then frustrates me, and then makes not want to swim. I used to do two workouts a day...I would swim and then do Power 90 (the baby version of P90X). But, doing that is what put me in the hospital. The doctors said I wore my body down so much that it could not fight off any infection. I have to take chemo meds to control my RA, which pretty much kills my immune system.
Basically, I'm not sure what to do. I LOVE swimming. I love the water. I love the glide. I love the feeling of freeness that swimming provides. But, I just don't love it anymore....I hope that makes sense.
Have any of you felt this way? How did you get past it? Is it just a funk? Should I take some time away from the pool? Thank you in advance!!!
Yesterday I attended a masters workout and was talking to the mother of a teenager I used to swim with on my USA Swimming team. I was asking about him since he hasn't been swimming with the team this fall. Turns out he decided to take some time off from club swimming and is rowing instead. I knew he'd had a difficult year in the pool. He felt bad in the water, was swimming slow and just generally feeling miserable yet it was still a difficult decision to quit swimming--even if just for a few months. Swimming was what he had done for so long it was part of how he defined himself. She said that he's now having a great time rowing and is looking forward to swimming with his high school swim team in the winter. I have a feeling he'll swim well AND enjoy himself doing it.
Sometimes we all just need to switch things up a little. You get into a routine and it can be very difficult to break from it even though it should be obvious that that routine is making you miserable. This is true whether it's a relationship, your job or a sport. Life is too previous to go through being unhappy for the majority of the time!
Yesterday I attended a masters workout and was talking to the mother of a teenager I used to swim with on my USA Swimming team. I was asking about him since he hasn't been swimming with the team this fall. Turns out he decided to take some time off from club swimming and is rowing instead. I knew he'd had a difficult year in the pool. He felt bad in the water, was swimming slow and just generally feeling miserable yet it was still a difficult decision to quit swimming--even if just for a few months. Swimming was what he had done for so long it was part of how he defined himself. She said that he's now having a great time rowing and is looking forward to swimming with his high school swim team in the winter. I have a feeling he'll swim well AND enjoy himself doing it.
Sometimes we all just need to switch things up a little. You get into a routine and it can be very difficult to break from it even though it should be obvious that that routine is making you miserable. This is true whether it's a relationship, your job or a sport. Life is too previous to go through being unhappy for the majority of the time!
