Hey everybody! Alright this is kind of a weird question and I hope I don't gross anyone out. I got a shammy for Christmas (LOVE IT) and I've been using it for about the past 3 monthes maybe 4 times a week. I ring it out as best I can, and store it (in the orginally little plastic tube) damp like the package says. However, lately it has been smelling kind of funny. Are you supposed to wash them? I have never washed mine, never thought I had too, but then it started smelling. It smelled when I first got it, and it's pretty much the same odor only a little stronger. Thanx!
~Kyra
p.s. Hope that's not to gross, of a weird question.
Geek,
I don't know what your research source was re urine in the water, but assumming the water and urine are pretty well mixed and a typical 8 lane 25 meter pool holds 300,000 galllons, that makes 1/12th of the volume urine or 25,000 gallons.
Now assumming 300 people a day use the pool, each person deposits about 83 gallons of urine. Those are some hydrated swimmers!
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Think of the big bulky and water logged towel as weight training ;)
I did absolutely no research, I'm not that big of a geek.
I received this information in an email from a fellow swimmer.
But, since you brought it up, how much urine would be acceptable to drink during a workout?
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Where as I get clean after meets by an actual shower with soap and a CLEAN towel ... try showering geek, it's the hygenic wave of the future!
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I thought chlorine killed everything! :eek:
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As with all the other stuff that is in the pool ... I try not to think about that. My team was joking that we should have a pee in the pool day once (the pool was getting drained and fixed the next day) and I said, yeah think about that one next time you accidently swallow water. They all stopped laughing immediately and went ew, never mind.
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Originally posted by aquageek
I read the other day that during the average 1 hour swim workout you will ingest 1/12 litre of urine. How's that for a nice thought!
Don't worry it is filtered, chlorinated, urine.
Connie nailed it on the head. A chamois doesn't replace my towel at the meet. It replaces 4 of the 6 towels I would bring to the meet. (One towel is kept dry for after the meet, the other is to keep warm after drying off with a shammy.)
I had not considered the dreaded stinky funky vinegary chamois for meet usage but can see this as a definite possibility. I still think I'd have to wash it after every usage. You may have convinced me on meet usage only. For practice, still quite unusual unless you towel off between sets. I tell you what really spoils a swimmer - towel service at the gym.
