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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Swimming in a 50m pool is humbling, all right. I've been doing it once a week for the last three months and my stroke count is only just starting to come down to where I think it should be.
One day when I got there they didn't have the lane ropes up and I had two near-collisions with a fellow who decided to swim cross-wise, since he wasn't strong enough to go 50 meters. (There were 25m lanes available in the other pool that he could have used.) Finishing another lap that same day, I emerged to find a teenage boy wearing my paddles at the end of the lane. Now I only go when I can be sure it will be set up for actual swimming, with actual lane ropes.
Swimming in a 50m pool is humbling, all right. I've been doing it once a week for the last three months and my stroke count is only just starting to come down to where I think it should be.
One day when I got there they didn't have the lane ropes up and I had two near-collisions with a fellow who decided to swim cross-wise, since he wasn't strong enough to go 50 meters. (There were 25m lanes available in the other pool that he could have used.) Finishing another lap that same day, I emerged to find a teenage boy wearing my paddles at the end of the lane. Now I only go when I can be sure it will be set up for actual swimming, with actual lane ropes.
