I listen to music when I run (or walk) but never when I swim. Now you have me thinking I should try listening to something other that rushing sound in my ears when I swim. Also, reading this reminds me why I quit swim team and how happy I am to be able to swim at my own pace now.
The headphones are fun for tooling around type swimming, but not for intervals. They cost $45. Meanwhile I am up to 10 x 50 on the 1:15 but it’s tough going.
I don't have much access to a pool right now but when I go back, I'm going to continue in my goal to swim without timing myself & I'm thinking music might help with that. At some point I also want to try open water swimming - it's surprisingly popular out here. But that won't involve headphones - for obvious reasons.
Oh ha ha well math was never my strong point - was thinking 60 laps, not fifties. Still.. 300 extra meters...yikes. And btw, I am not aiming to go fifties on the fifty. Aiming for 50s on the minute. Also, may do it in two sets. or four. (We have issues here with the pool, at the moment you can only have a 35 minute time slot.)
Wow! I've been a swimmer off and on (you know, swim team as a kid—even won a medal—and later SF pools were the best exercise for staying alive while living there) but I don't think I could ever do that kind of distance. Especially not now after a year+ off. I love it, but I don't like trying too hard, I always liked doing a crawl at a rate where I could do three strokes (RLR or LRL) between breaths so I could balance out my damn neck tensions.
I tried the headphones thing too, with bone-conduction ones. I thought it would be excellent, but you're right that it can be distracting tempo-wise. (Also the bone-conduction ones are severely frequency-limited, so basically not great for modern recordings. Old jazz sounded pretty good, though.)
I listen to music when I run (or walk) but never when I swim. Now you have me thinking I should try listening to something other that rushing sound in my ears when I swim. Also, reading this reminds me why I quit swim team and how happy I am to be able to swim at my own pace now.
The headphones are fun for tooling around type swimming, but not for intervals. They cost $45. Meanwhile I am up to 10 x 50 on the 1:15 but it’s tough going.
I don't have much access to a pool right now but when I go back, I'm going to continue in my goal to swim without timing myself & I'm thinking music might help with that. At some point I also want to try open water swimming - it's surprisingly popular out here. But that won't involve headphones - for obvious reasons.
I'm in for the 60 x 50 challenge!! Training starts now.
Sigh, we've been forced!
I swim in a 25 meter pool. I looked up the conversion and I need to repeat the 50's on 1 min 6 seconds. And yes, those 6 seconds will help!
Oh that's bad. It means you have to swim 6600 yards. I guess it could be worse, if the pool was long course!
6600!! Why do I have to do double the distance?! 3000 meters = about 3300 yards. I'm sticking with 3000 meters!
Oh ha ha well math was never my strong point - was thinking 60 laps, not fifties. Still.. 300 extra meters...yikes. And btw, I am not aiming to go fifties on the fifty. Aiming for 50s on the minute. Also, may do it in two sets. or four. (We have issues here with the pool, at the moment you can only have a 35 minute time slot.)
Try listening to a book. That works for me on threadmills. I can't listen to them anywhere else. Works great for monotony.
And in that picture, you do look GREAT!!
I love this picture! But alas I think I got 4s on that dive so it must have landed wrong. Also - seven years ago, I was much thinner.
So was I. 😛
Wow! I've been a swimmer off and on (you know, swim team as a kid—even won a medal—and later SF pools were the best exercise for staying alive while living there) but I don't think I could ever do that kind of distance. Especially not now after a year+ off. I love it, but I don't like trying too hard, I always liked doing a crawl at a rate where I could do three strokes (RLR or LRL) between breaths so I could balance out my damn neck tensions.
I tried the headphones thing too, with bone-conduction ones. I thought it would be excellent, but you're right that it can be distracting tempo-wise. (Also the bone-conduction ones are severely frequency-limited, so basically not great for modern recordings. Old jazz sounded pretty good, though.)
Oh that's so interesting, I nearly got some of those bone conduction ones - glad I didn't. These headphones work OK re: sound.