Hi, do most of you swim in early morning, or evening (yeah I know many swim twice a day)? Or during daytime? Reason?
For the lucky folks who have their own private pool or live by the ocean, or your pool is nearby, you can swim whenver you want, but I swim in public swimming pool which is about an hour transportation from my home:(, so even though I wish to swim in early morning, it's hard, especially during weekdays. Are there any folks in my situation? (Sorry if there has been similar post in the past, which I haven't found.) How do you manage? I'll be interested, thanks.
I'm up at 4:45am and at poolside at 5:50ish. The lifeguards are on the stands at 6:00am and that's when I jump in.
I swim alone - but with other lap swimmers. We have an indoor 25 yard pool and an outdoor 50 meter pool that is current split by a bulkhead. I think we have about 30 SCY lanes. In addition to the lap swimmers, there are two age group teams, the high school team and the university team (women).
This morning at about 6:45am, I saw the most amazing sunrises - blue skies with purple-pinkish clouds. A great reason to get up and go swimming!
Hey Philipp--
I swam with the masters group at NMSU in June while I was in Las Cruces for work. It is a small group, but a few guys were very fast. The pool is really nice too. If it isn't too far for you (and really, in Las Cruces not much is that far), you should try to swim with them.
That said, when I swim really depends on when I can squeeze in running and weights. In summer here in the Phoenix area, I've been running 2 mornings during the week, and moved my swimming to those evenings, swimming the other mornings. I'll probably switch back to all mornings next week, as our heat is starting to break and I should be able to run at night (plus I have a work training downtown so that would be more convenient). Generally, I swim with the team at 6am, sometimes 6pm, and occasionally at noon (every now and then I'll do a 6am and 6pm). Rarely will I swim on Sat mornings.
I do better mid morning, but because of my new job I now have to swim in the early afternoon a couple of times a week.
I am not very disciplined and I'm afraid that as the month pass I 'll skip those days because it makes it feel like my day
comes to a screeching halt when i have to drop stuff and get to the pool.
The only benefit I can see coming from this new practice time is that when I swim in the morning I often find myself crashing by 2-3pm.
To fix that I would fill up on :coffee:-and then I have a hard time falling asleep when it matters.
Thank you all for the replies and participating the poll :)
> This morning at about 6:45am, I saw the most amazing sunrises - blue skies
> with purple-pinkish clouds. A great reason to get up and go swimming!
pdjang, I so admire you can see that view when going swimming!!!
Those who swim in the morning, I suppose you all live close to the pool? For those of you getting up 4:45ish, I wonder when do you go to bed in the evening? I wouldn't believe you go to bed at 9pm already. Maybe you don't need much sleep every day?
The time of day I swim is almost completely random. As early as 7 in the morning, and as late as 9 at night. Pretty much whenever I have time and I feel like swimming.
I wasn't sure how to respond.Mon and Wed I swim at noon,Tues I swim after work,Fri I swim before work(why is a longer explanation than anyone would be interested in.)
I swim when I can, but try to actually swim laps three-four days a week. I work two jobs, one of which is teaching swimming three days a week, so I'm in the water at least six days a week.
Laps are either in the afternoon or evening.
