things that are not writing

[mizkit]

Yoga class last night was pleasant in a sort of "I don't really feel like I'm getting much out of this" way. The class last week felt more...achivey. I (we) did, however, learn the sun salutation, which I'm not any good at at *all*, and feel very clumsy doing. And we don't have class next week because it's a bank holiday, so if I don't practice

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[anonymous]

If you're doing it correctly, which the club should be able to help you with, rowing won't hurt your back and should strengthen it.

The problems I had with my back (specifically from rowing) were usually due to being on the rower for a really long time (spending 3+ hours doing any one type of exercise is going to ache)which would also cause my form to go completely wonky and generally short-lived.

There are a couple of places online you can look at to see what the correct form is and stuff. http://www.concept2.co.uk/ is for indoor rowing machines and has a training section. It's not a direct translation to on-the-water stuff but it's pretty good. I think the Row Perfect system is a more direct translation to on-the-water rowing but I don't know much about that.

[silkblade]

oh. shoot, that anonymous post was mine. Oops.

[mizkit]

You're awesome. Thanks!

[mylescorcoran]

Nice icon, alright.

A friend from work has similar complaints about slow swimmers. He does many lengths each morning in the pool in the Mardyke Arena and gives out yards about the lane discipline and slow-coaches dawdling in the fast lane(s).

Perhaps it's a Cork thing. If the swimming lane discipline is anything like their road lane discipline I'm surprised there aren't mass drownings in Cobh each week.

[mizkit]

Tell your coworker that I have huge sympathy for him and if it weren't totally impractical I'd come swim at Mardyke and we could dominate a lane and snarl at anyone who got in our way. :)

It's worse here than anywhere else I've swum because I've never before swum somewhere that I was *clearly* the fastest person in the pool. There are often slow coaches in the way at any pool, but this is the first time there's never been anyone I could at least make an effort to lane up with to scare people away. (Not very friendly, am I?)

And it may be the time of day I'm swimming--realistically I won't get up early enough to go to the MWF morning lap swim, and there's equally little chance I'll go to the late-evening lap swim, so the fast people may be swimming then. I'm going to have to move closer to the pool before I find out. But right now, just, argh! Get out of my way! :)

[chamois_shimi]

I'm not a very fast or efficient swimmer (it takes me about an hour to swim a mile), and I can't, absolutely can't share a lane when I lap-swim. Which means I can rarely manage to lap swim. :( See, I can't look while I'm swimming - if I wear goggles and can see, then I can't regulate my breathing. I don't know why, but if I can see, I can't swim and breathe at the same time. So I have to swim with my eyes closed ... and in any case, I wouldn't be swimming with my glasses on and hence would be half-blind even if I could wear goggles and watch what I was doing.

I hate public pools. Grump.

[mizkit]

That's really odd. You obviously need your own pool. :)

[chamois_shimi]

Totally!! Maybe if I win the lottery I could get one of those "endless pools" or whatever they're called, the small ones that generate a current to swim against so you don't have to have a big giant pool.

Of course, that would mean I'd have to actually BUY lottery tickets. Hah. ;D

[knappenp]

How do you not hit the wall if you swim with your eyes closed?

(I totally need to get back in the pool.)

[annathepiper]

Yay, Doctor icons! (She said, being very full of the Doctor love right now. ^_^)

[mizkit]

That one of yours is very nearly perfect too. Rawr. He's so adorable. :)

[annathepiper]

*laughs!* Oh gods, 'adorkable' is perfect. mamishka came over Monday night to watch a couple episodes of the new series with me, and we were giggling over how he is definitely the dorkiest Doctor ever. And that's all part of his charm. ;)

[mizkit]

I thought the adorkable icon was bery bery funny and cute, yeah. :)