Hi all,
All winter I have been swimming in an indoor 25m pool. I have build up from about 2000 to 4000m per workout over the course of 4 months (April-now). So this summer I found an outdoor pool which I swim in from 6-7:30 pm. I think the water is cooler than the indoor pool, and there are no lane ropes that cut down on turbulence (though there are very few people swimming laps there at this time). I do tend to go to the indoor pool about an hour or so earlier because of the crowd and because the outdoor pool has all-lap-swimmers at that time. But that shouldn't affect anything.
The problem is that I always lack motivation and I have *yet* to finish a workout in this pool--for example, yesterday I was supposed to swim 3800m but only swam 1250 before I got tired and actually quit--and I've done this every time in that pool. I tried swimming the indoor pool the other day to test, and I swam the whole workout--4000m--without issue.
What's the problem? Is it the water temp, the turbulence, both, neither, or something else? Or could it be mental? I love the outdoor swimming idea but if I can't swim my workout, I don't know how to fix it.
Suggestions?
:yawn:
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I'm in the same situation. Indoors I'm great, but in the outdoor pool . . . if it's not coached, I'm not finishing. :blush: Maybe it's the novelty of being outside (I'm in MN) that is too distracting? I always feel like I'm somewhere else when I'm out there. Our indoor pool is SO boring and uninspiring that there's really nothing else to think about except my workout. LOL
I think that may be part of it...the novelty of being outside. I want to see what's going on, the sun is always out, 10 other things are on my mind (like getting a tan & reading, lol)...but at the indoor pool, I don't care about any of that. None of my workouts are coached since I'm not swimming with the team right now (in school & working full time so no time for their late-evening practices)....so it's hard to maintain focus outdoors. The team I swim with (when I do swim w/them) does practice outside in the summer for the majority of their practices, so really I have no excuse.
I'm in the same situation. Indoors I'm great, but in the outdoor pool . . . if it's not coached, I'm not finishing. :blush: Maybe it's the novelty of being outside (I'm in MN) that is too distracting? I always feel like I'm somewhere else when I'm out there. Our indoor pool is SO boring and uninspiring that there's really nothing else to think about except my workout. LOL
I think that may be part of it...the novelty of being outside. I want to see what's going on, the sun is always out, 10 other things are on my mind (like getting a tan & reading, lol)...but at the indoor pool, I don't care about any of that. None of my workouts are coached since I'm not swimming with the team right now (in school & working full time so no time for their late-evening practices)....so it's hard to maintain focus outdoors. The team I swim with (when I do swim w/them) does practice outside in the summer for the majority of their practices, so really I have no excuse.
