Swim happy

I have a swim happy! I got a chance to practice diving off the starting blocks this morning!! I haden't done that in 20 years, and that's really the only thing I'm nervous about at the meet I signed up for next month. I talked to the swim coach for the triahlon class I'm currently taking about the Y's no diving policy and asked if he could help me out by seeing if they would let me go off the blocks during class time. So today he stopped me during a set and had me hop up and try it. The good news is I was able to keep my goggles on about half the time. This is an improvemnt over 20 years ago (0% of the time) and I will credit improved goggle technology. (We can assume my technique has not improved. lol) Because they staty on sometimes, I can tell what I need to be doing with the angle of my head to make them stay on better. Yay for all that! All the times that I managed to get the front end of my dive right, my thighs slapped the water really loudly (and they are now correspondingly red). But, oh well for now on that. At this first-meet-in-20-years on March 5, my goal is a dive that gives me a better start than pushing from the wall and leaves my goggles in place. AND, he said he'd let me practice a few more times before the meet. Yay!

I have a swim happy! I got a chance to practice diving off the starting blocks this morning!! I haden't done that in 20 years, and that's really the only thing I'm nervous about at the meet I signed up for next month. I talked to the swim coach for the triahlon class I'm currently taking about the Y's no diving policy and asked if he could help me out by seeing if they would let me go off the blocks during class time. So today he stopped me during a set and had me hop up and try it. The good news is I was able to keep my goggles on about half the time. This is an improvemnt over 20 years ago (0% of the time) and I will credit improved goggle technology. (We can assume my technique has not improved. lol) Because they staty on sometimes, I can tell what I need to be doing with the angle of my head to make them stay on better. Yay for all that! All the times that I managed to get the front end of my dive right, my thighs slapped the water really loudly (and they are now correspondingly red). But, oh well for now on that. At this first-meet-in-20-years on March 5, my goal is a dive that gives me a better start than pushing from the wall and leaves my goggles in place. AND, he said he'd let me practice a few more times before the meet. Yay!