For me, it's now going on four weeks since my last swim. We were in Turks and Caicos March 7-14 for spring break where I was doing daily open-water swims along the beach. My last swim was a 3-miler on March 13. When we got back to the U.S., we had to go into mandated 14-day quarantine so I wasn't able to get out to go to the pool before they all closed. Who knows when I'll swim again...either open-water warming up (I live in RI), or pools opening again. I am maintaining fitness with bike rides, and a run here and there. And I know I there is other 'dry land' training I could be doing. But my concern when returning to the water is injuring myself because of doing TMTS. I'm just that kind of athlete. Raise you're hand if you think you're a candidate for a TMTS injury too.
Dan
Someone tell me a story about flip turns.
My last flip turn (i.e. swim in a lap pool) was on 3/5/2020. The next day we went on vacation to Turks & Caicos where I was swimming daily along the beach. My last swim there was on 3/13/20. Obviously when we got home on everything was closed. I didn't swim again until 5/4/2020...and that was in our home inground pool that I opened about a month earlier than usual so that I could do tethered swims...wearing a wetsuit becasue the water was only in the high 50s F. I did that for the next month until the open water was warm enough to get in with a wetsuit in the last week of May. All my swimming this summer has be in the open water...and it looks like it will be for a while longer.
Remember flip turns? I know I once did them. Hope I can remember how.
Dan
Someone tell me a story about flip turns.
My last flip turn (i.e. swim in a lap pool) was on 3/5/2020. The next day we went on vacation to Turks & Caicos where I was swimming daily along the beach. My last swim there was on 3/13/20. Obviously when we got home on everything was closed. I didn't swim again until 5/4/2020...and that was in our home inground pool that I opened about a month earlier than usual so that I could do tethered swims...wearing a wetsuit becasue the water was only in the high 50s F. I did that for the next month until the open water was warm enough to get in with a wetsuit in the last week of May. All my swimming this summer has be in the open water...and it looks like it will be for a while longer.
Remember flip turns? I know I once did them. Hope I can remember how.
Dan
