I have been swimming in the pool at my new school and the pool is kept somewhere in the low 70's. Since I moved from my hometown to school I haven't been swimming as frequently as I was before, still twice a week at least. Does anyone know if a cold pool effects your ability, my times are slower and I never seem to get warmed up during a workout.
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We did a 10k postal swim one summer in our masters program and I had to pull a swimmer /triathlete that was getting hypothermic. He had lost count, could not speak clearly, and had gone past the blue lips. He was unhappy to be pulled but understood why.
That reminds me of the triathlete during the bike portion of Ironman Wisconsin who told a volunteer that he didn't want to quit, but he wanted someone to come and give him an IV! (It was 93 degrees, windy, and humid. They pulled him off the course.)
We did a 10k postal swim one summer in our masters program and I had to pull a swimmer /triathlete that was getting hypothermic. He had lost count, could not speak clearly, and had gone past the blue lips. He was unhappy to be pulled but understood why.
That reminds me of the triathlete during the bike portion of Ironman Wisconsin who told a volunteer that he didn't want to quit, but he wanted someone to come and give him an IV! (It was 93 degrees, windy, and humid. They pulled him off the course.)
