Swimming Secrets

Hear, hear! When I was a kid they told me that there was this stuff they put in the pool that would make your pee turn red. That kept me from peeing for a long time. I wash my goggles with shampoo (Johnson's Baby Shampoo) and then use these sprays or whatever that you buy (Speedo) to keep the fog away. I think spitting is gross....billy fanstone

Here's one of my secrets I've never written about but those who train with me kid me about it sometimes. I like to brush my teeth before I swim.

I pee in the pool. I thought that was a given. I blame my age group coaches. it's their fault for not allowing us out of the pool during practice. But I talked about this with some other swimmers and I guess it's an art form not everyone is able to do this.

I find it hard to believe that bacteria in your mouth can cause eye infections. Let me quickly google this... Walter my understanding is that you won't get infections from your own spit. Yeah, I would guess it would be a pretty remote chance of occurring but I suppose it could happen. Heck, I've actually put one of my contact lenses in my mouth to re-wet it once while out hiking when I got dirt in my eye. I then put it back in my eye and never got an infection. Maybe I had clean spit that day. LOL:out: www.scubaboard.com/.../t-4672.html One of my coaches used to wet her contacts in her mouth sometimes. Don't know that she ever got any eye infections... Can't imagine (unless you're hocking a loogy -sp?- in your goggles) that you could get an eye infection from licking them. However, I can see that it might be gross to lick your goggles. Have to say I've done it, though.

Licking the goggles, I admit to. I was surprised to see that the gutters at the pool now have covers, until I remembered all the spit and snot that used to end up in them back when.

Confession. I always hawk up a huge oyster into my goggles, then rinse them in the gutter. I never pee in the pool (see my blog for a toilet break tally) A friend once asked me to pass her a kickboard during practice. I threw it and it hit her in the head really hard. Sorry Bev. I got really stroppy at the guys in the lane next to me during the mile-for-time because they finished before me even though I'd lapped a couple of them. I should have let it go..sigh I flipped off a guy on a jetski recently while swimming in Lake Travis. The d-head was staring at me, smiling and buzzing by me deliberately.

Jim your googley evidence is simply incontrovertible. I too have used my own saliva as makeshift contact solution on more than one occasion, and so far my eyes and brain are still intact. Well my eyes at least. Returning to the topic of swim secrets.. sometimes I throw in an extra burst of kicking to hide the other bubbles.

I got really stroppy at the guys in the lane next to me during the mile-for-time because they finished before me even though I'd lapped a couple of them. I should have let it go..sigh . I feel your pain

What?! You let a cat crap in your goggles?!:eeew:

I lick my goggles. It does work. Recently, I have had some congestion. Especially during flip turns, it is really bad, so I blow snot rocket in the pool all the time. It happens.