Hmm, after all the great feedback and working very hard (and succeeding!) for last three weeks to get my sad brain to shut up and my body to get into the pool, I fell and broke my hand. :shakeshead:
So now my question is, has anyone ever swum in a waterproof cast (doctor said it was a possibility once I'm a little bit healed)? I've asked a few people and have been advised against it, in that they say these casts begin to reek quite quickly (I'm assuming that at least for a few weeks I won't be able to take it on/off).
Perhaps this will be my opportunity to cross-train extensively.... Take up ballet again.... Shoot! is all I can say. Four to eight weeks of cast-ville.
Advice re waterproof casts? (I did search here but nothing popped up.)
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OK. So I am now in a removable splint and have been kicking about 2000 yards 3xweek, and doing the much-hated elliptical cross-country setting for 30 minutes 2xweek, and in the last week, some very gingerly tested freestyle. And I've stuck to my weights routine with my good arm.
I have signed up for a meet Dec. 12-14, my usual events (800 free, 400 free, 400 IM, 100 free), since my doctor said I should be able to swim by December 1st. I showed him a picture of fly from the USMS magazine so he would understand the kind of swimming I mean.
Yah, I am crazy! But it gives me a sense of hope and purpose. Nonetheless, does it sound like I am doing enough aerobic training to at least not have a heart attack when I get back in the pool on December 1st and actually try to swim? Right now my ginger freestyle pace is a whopping 32 seconds per 25 yards (but technically I am not supposed to be swimming at all. I am a terrible patient). Yeah! At the least I will confound people when they look at my times from this year versus next year, and maybe someone will start a post, How did you get so much faster?
Of course if my hand hurts too much I will scratch the meet. But I like the idea of the challenge of getting in 400 IM shape in 11 days. ha ha ha ha ha ha.
