I’m talking about the kind of information that you don’t normally share with others. For example, I once went three weeks without washing my swim towel, but I find it disgusting when other people lick the inside of their goggles to keep them from fogging. I also pretend that I don’t care about racing anymore, but secretly I still look at everyone's times.
What are some of your swimming secrets?
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Hmm. Speaking of brushing and flossing, does chlorine make your teeth whiter? Because in the months since I started swimming, I could swear my teeth have gotten whiter. I have the whitest teeth in my family now.
Anyway... secrets in my swimming... I have not peed in the pool. Yet.
Sometimes during backstroke, instead of just letting all that annoying phlegm wash all over my lower face I just hawk it all back and spit it out. I'm good at getting it to go pretty high, like past the flags. Don't blanche! I don't do it very often, just when I'm rested enough and breathing is not enough of a hassle that I can actually, you know, do it.
Once, in this shallow 3-ft. pool that I practice at, I used the bottom to speed up my backstroke so impressively that everyone was looking at me.
It seems that my dirty secrets occur during backstroke...
Someone told me that saliva keeps goggles from fogging up. I still refuse to do such a thing as lick the insides of them though.
Hmm. Speaking of brushing and flossing, does chlorine make your teeth whiter? Because in the months since I started swimming, I could swear my teeth have gotten whiter. I have the whitest teeth in my family now.
Anyway... secrets in my swimming... I have not peed in the pool. Yet.
Sometimes during backstroke, instead of just letting all that annoying phlegm wash all over my lower face I just hawk it all back and spit it out. I'm good at getting it to go pretty high, like past the flags. Don't blanche! I don't do it very often, just when I'm rested enough and breathing is not enough of a hassle that I can actually, you know, do it.
Once, in this shallow 3-ft. pool that I practice at, I used the bottom to speed up my backstroke so impressively that everyone was looking at me.
It seems that my dirty secrets occur during backstroke...
Someone told me that saliva keeps goggles from fogging up. I still refuse to do such a thing as lick the insides of them though.
