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 don't know about outdoor, but I do find that swimming in a 50m pool which is also wider seems harder than a 25m one. The water doesn't seem so "tame". Perhaps it's because the lane lines are further apart from each other thus more turbulence? Prior to my recent vacation I made a plan to practice longer distance in a 50m pool and was very excited about it, but as soon as I was in the pool, the feelings were completely unexpected, swimming was hard (partly due to the pumps), and I barely swam for 20 minutes before I got out. Not to mention that I had wanted to show off to some people about my swimming progress! In the following swims in that pool I think I never swam for more than half hour. When I returned to the 25 yard pool, my swim returned to "normal"; how I wish the people whom I wanted to show off to were here! :shakeshead:
I don't know about outdoor, but I do find that swimming in a 50m pool which is also wider seems harder than a 25m one. The water doesn't seem so "tame". Perhaps it's because the lane lines are further apart from each other thus more turbulence? Prior to my recent vacation I made a plan to practice longer distance in a 50m pool and was very excited about it, but as soon as I was in the pool, the feelings were completely unexpected, swimming was hard (partly due to the pumps), and I barely swam for 20 minutes before I got out. Not to mention that I had wanted to show off to some people about my swimming progress! In the following swims in that pool I think I never swam for more than half hour. When I returned to the 25 yard pool, my swim returned to "normal"; how I wish the people whom I wanted to show off to were here! :shakeshead:
