When I was swimming the 100 fly this morning, my shoulder decided we were done about 60 yards in. I really wanted to stop so that I didn't hurt it, but I didn't know the proper approach. I ended up just finishing and trying to keep my stroke legal, but it was slow and painful. Should I have just stopped and swam back to the wall?
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One race I didn't finish was a 50m (FR, of course. What else?) where my goggles completely came off (not down my neck but separated from my body) on the start. I had had a retinal detachment operation a couple of months prior followed by corneal abrasion. Had these been the Olympics and me in the finals, I still would not have risked swimming without eye protection. I just stopped, retrieved my still floating goggles and walked back to the starting blocks (which I reached before anybody else in the race).
My time from start to finish (for a 50m free in a SCM) was about 10 seconds. A World Record, I believe (if I hadn't been DQ'ed with a DNF; a mere technicality really. I did indeed finish. I just did not do the turn. Judges can be so finnicky and stickler for details).
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One race I didn't finish was a 50m (FR, of course. What else?) where my goggles completely came off (not down my neck but separated from my body) on the start. I had had a retinal detachment operation a couple of months prior followed by corneal abrasion. Had these been the Olympics and me in the finals, I still would not have risked swimming without eye protection. I just stopped, retrieved my still floating goggles and walked back to the starting blocks (which I reached before anybody else in the race).
My time from start to finish (for a 50m free in a SCM) was about 10 seconds. A World Record, I believe (if I hadn't been DQ'ed with a DNF; a mere technicality really. I did indeed finish. I just did not do the turn. Judges can be so finnicky and stickler for details).
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