Swim Rant

Fort. OUCH:(:(.Congrats on your TT times though:cheerleader::cheerleader:.

If I take off my contacts and goggles, I won't even be able to see the lane lines, much less the walls ... This sounds like a good time to challenge you to a grudge race. :thhbbb: J/K of course. I'm sorry to hear you're having problems with your eyes. Hope it gets better soon. It's hell to get :cane: isn't it?

That's a real :mooning:er! But if you've been ordered out of the water for just one week, you might still be close to form for the meet. Lucky it wasn't corneal abrasion. I know that now is not the time you want to hear about others' eye problems, but.....bear with me...... I've had two cataract and one retinal detachment surgeries and after each I did have corneal abrasions. Not till the second such mishap did my eye surgeon refer me to another who made me wear clear contact lense "bandages" to cover and protect the eye (only one in each case). Would such protection (under tight goggles) let your doctor allow you to swim? Good Luck....... I've never heard of contact bandages. I'll have to ask about them. I'm slamming vigamox and prednisone now. Swimming just doesn't seem to agree with my eyes, nose or shoulders. Grr... I'm hopeful I can hop in the water sooner with my prescription goggles. We'll see. I was also supposed to swim my first ever 100 fly SCY next Sunday at a USA meet. Bad timing. Oh well. That's masters swimming ... Thanks for the tip! Oh that's a good idea, George. If I take off my contacts and goggles, I won't even be able to see the lane lines, much less the walls ...

I have another bout of iritis aka dry eye run amuck (no corneal abrasions though). No swimming for a week. I had just started 4 weeks of harder training, so I'm bummed. I don't know whether to swim in my meet in Dec. as planned. Argh. :sad: That's a real :mooning:er! But if you've been ordered out of the water for just one week, you might still be close to form for the meet. Lucky it wasn't corneal abrasion. I know that now is not the time you want to hear about others' eye problems, but.....bear with me...... I've had two cataract and one retinal detachment surgeries and after each I did have corneal abrasions. Not till the second such mishap did my eye surgeon refer me to another who made me wear clear contact lense "bandages" to cover and protect the eye (only one in each case). Would such protection (under tight goggles) let your doctor allow you to swim? Good Luck.......

Fort just a thought. If you take your goggles off and swim you will not have dry eye any more they will be soaked.

FED UP WITH MY :censor: P.I.A. BACK GIVING ME GRIEF EVERY 6 WEEKS... It makes me :mad: and I tend to :bitching: more. I am prone to :argue: with others, as I feel like an:cane:. It just is:notworking: and I am so frustrated I want to :cry:I just flat out feel like:whiteflag:. There is not much chance of any:banana: in my immediate future! I need to be fit for the upcoming :party2: season!

This is not necessarily a rant, but this thread still seems the appropriate place to post this. I've never seen this happen before. I train alone at a gym pool that has narrow lanes. The other day, each lane was occupied with one swimmer. I was one of them, swimming a butterfly main set. Some Other Guy came out of the locker room and flagged me down in the middle of the set, right at my interval. He asked me to split the lane. I shifted over, said "fine" and pushed off 5 seconds late for my next swim. He hopped in and swam with me, the only butterflyer in the pool. He was slow; many times I had to be careful not to whack him upside the head. By open-swim chance, every other lane had a swimmer much closer to his speed... but they were all female. I realized, that poor guy must be so terrified to speak to a woman, that instead he opted to share a narrow lane with a butterflyer. Nope, never seen that before.

Swimming in lane 1 of 10 against a wall with no lane line against the wall sucks! I think only lanes 2-9 should have been in use during a championship meet. Visibly more turbulence from lanea 1 and 10.

This is a rant on behalf of my wife, who swam today while I lifted weights. She was swimming in one lane, and next to her was a couple of teenage kids. No big deal, except for the fact that they were "making-out", "necking", making "kissy-face"…whatever you want to call it. First off - eewwwww gross, if we want to see that we'll go home and watch cinemax. Second, they were upset with my wife because while she was swimming, they kept trying to move to the opposite end, to have some "alone time". Finally, they'd do the "let's race the swimmer for one piddly length of the pool, just to feel good about ourselves" trick. They couldn't even get that right as she'd still smoke them. I asked my wife which lane they were in, because I'm not swimming in that lane anymore. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

This is a rant on behalf of my wife, who swam today while I lifted weights. She was swimming in one lane, and next to her was a couple of teenage kids. No big deal, except for the fact that they were "making-out", "necking", making "kissy-face"…whatever you want to call it. First off - eewwwww gross, if we want to see that we'll go home and watch cinemax. Second, they were upset with my wife because while she was swimming, they kept trying to move to the opposite end, to have some "alone time". Finally, they'd do the "let's race the swimmer for one piddly length of the pool, just to feel good about ourselves" trick. They couldn't even get that right as she'd still smoke them. I asked my wife which lane they were in, because I'm not swimming in that lane anymore. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: hmmm... so they want "alone time" and go to a pool with other swimmers nearby to get this alone time. :confused: Heh! I love that your wife kicked butt when they tried to "race" her.