FishEveryone: the Fetchland swimming wire
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13 Feb
4:32pm, 13 Feb 2025
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KatieB
I use Zoggs ear plugs. Get very dizzy/bambi like after OW swims without them and have had swimmers ear once or twice. Cap definitely helps keep them in. Totally solved my dizziness. Have also used ear calm. Very good too. |
13 Feb
4:53pm, 13 Feb 2025
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Northern Exile
I definitely can't function without earplugs, esp. open water.
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14 Feb
6:12am, 14 Feb 2025
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Daz Love
Thats great work NE. Excellent pace.
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14 Feb
7:55am, 14 Feb 2025
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Northern Exile
Cheers Daz 🙂
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14 Feb
11:26am, 14 Feb 2025
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KatieB
I’d missed your 1.46/100m for 1400m NE. That’s awesome! I’m happy if I get towards the 2.05/100 mark for 1 rep. Endurance is more my thing.  Working on my efficiency at the moment though which should make it all betterer. |
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14 Feb
3:16pm, 14 Feb 2025
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Northern Exile
I know what you mean Katie. Long distance stuff has always sort of been my forte, but when younger it was all about sprinting, both running and swimming.
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14 Feb
8:57pm, 14 Feb 2025
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Oranj
Does anyone know where the menu link to the Swimmers Page went? I've kept it bookmarked here: fetcheveryone.com/training-swim.php and I'm sure it used to sit on the menu for training fetcheveryone.com/training-home.php but I think I'm going mad 😵 because I can't see it there now. |
15 Feb
10:46am, 15 Feb 2025
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CasB
I think used to be there too Oranj but I can't see it now either! Hopefully that nice Mr Fetch can pop it back if you send him a feedback. Very nice pace NE! Question for the people who know about technique. I've joined a swim training group and every now and again one of the sets includes 100/200m or so with pull buoy and paddles, and I'm trying to work out why using them makes me slow down (by about 10sec/100m), and generally find it so much harder to swim - my shoulders get properly tired very quickly. I've used both separately for drills without an issue but with both together I really struggle and can't keep pace in my lane. I think part of it is my legs are quite buoyant anyway, and it felt like my bum was sticking up during the sets last night, but not sure what's going on with my arms - whether there's something wonky about my pull that the paddles are magnifying and increasing the resistance of the water? Any ideas gratefully received. |
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15 Feb
3:46pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Daz Love
This talk of pace per 100m got me thinking. Has anyone added a feature suggestion to @fetcheveryone to have this show in the entries table? Would be helpful! I know we have pace, but that is per 1k. If not I will add (also on that note where do I find what is currently submitted - I did have a look and couldnt locate!!) |
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15 Feb
4:03pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Northern Exile
@CasB I know there are a couple of proper swimming coaches here who will be able to provide a much better answer to your question than I can, but I have come across this situation before and will tell you what I know: For years I had a training partner (Emma) and although I've moved house and we no longer swim together, there wasn't much we didn't know about each other's swimming abilities. Give me a pull buoy and you'll barely notice the difference in speed, my kick really isn't a significant part of my swimming and about the only thing it does is keep my lower body upright. For Emma, however, her kick was very much part of the the overall propulsion package, make her swim with a pull buoy and she slowed down considerably. I've read the Aussie Swim Smooth manual and they make it clear that we're all physically different and they would have categorised Emma as a "kicktastic" straight away, I'm not sure quite where I was in the league table but definitely not that Also, our coach used to praise her position in the water and said that she had a perfect "three balaclavas" in the water, I understand that to be that when swimming she had the back of her head and each bum cheek out of the water, so like you she had great buoyancy and in a perfect streamlined position. I'd kill for that to come naturally (I have sinky, heavy legs like so many runners/cyclists), instead I have to work on it and really get the balance right ..... this is all a long winded way of saying that I'd embrace what you have and get those arms sorted out - you have the makings of a superb form in the water and you deserve to work at it.
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