For the last few weeks, I've been noticing what I see when I swim. I have noticed two things about my free stroke.
1. When I do free, I see almost my entire left arm stroke. I breath to my left. I see my hand enter the water, begin the catch, pull to my waist. Then it disappears. I see it then when I roll to breathe. I only see my right hand briefly as it enters into the water. I think this might be because I don't rotate my hips enogh as I pull my right hand & arm through the stroke. Then it reappears as it passes my waist and relaxes.
I swam some laps breathing to my right and i saw exactly the opposite.
2. As I begin to flip, I look down, seee my left big toe, then my eyes move to the right foot. As my feet pass over my head I look through the space between my right big toe & the next toe. I was really amazed at how much I can see outside of the pool through this gap. As I roll I close my eyes to blink. Then I look at the left side of the pool for the push off and pull out. I realized that I do this even when I am not thinking about it or consciously looking.
Funny you should ask this question today.
As I was swimming this morning on two different occasions I had two very opposite experiences.
One time I drifted into thinking and solving world hunger and balancing my checkbook and who-knows-what-else... and I realized that I had ticked off almost 200 yards without really being aware of it. (I can tell how far I've gone by the time that has transpired on the pace clock.) I just got into this "zone" that seemed to pass in an instant, yet in that same span of time my mind wandered seemingly all around the globe.
And I can't remember a single thing I saw during that time.
A little later I once again drifted into a zone during which I seemed to process twice as many thoughts and problems. And when I looked up I had only swum 50 yards.
And it seemed that I saw each and every tile along the bottom during those two lengths.
