I do about 1km a week (in one session only) but tend to push the pace if i want more of a workout. I'd like to maybe double that, then aim at swimming twice a week if i get time. I know i won't get time though. Might try swimming before work instead of after.

do you wear a cap, tangy?

Good question, september.

Tangy - if you don't wear a cap do you at least tie your hair up?

no cap, no goggles. maybe I should start. can't be good for my eyes.

wtf? you don't wear goggles? how long do your eyes water for?

oh swimming i love you.....and i miss you. too busy the past 2 weeks. no laps for what feels like ages! average 3kms over sat-mon. i would love to do more

i bet you wear boardies/footy shorts in the pool too.

I swim 1km daily. But I've fallen afoul of the incestuous life saving club who a prepping for the dry season. If one of them gets into the line ahead of me in the morning they let the other late comers bog in.

I'm pretty sure they all wife swap.

No genrally tying it up causes more problems. Doesn't get in my way. My eyes are a little bloodshot for an hour or two maybe. Hmm.

jesus christ. do you not wear them because you think they couldn't possibly keep the water off your eye? that is the only reasonable excuse.

i am going for a swim after work. i am going to keep going until i get some slutty blonde streaks in my hair because i am too cheap to pay for them at the hairdressers.

My excuse is laziness I guess. I've only been swimming regularly for 12 months or so. I should probably change my ways. Is it just discomfort or can chlorine do damage? My eyesight is still 20/20. I do look a little scary after swimming though.

i don't know about damage but the discomfort i used to suffer when i was a kid after swimming lessons was fucking extreme and even worse after opening my eyes while my mum would shampoo my hair in the bath. yes i was nude. no she wasn't in the bath with me. my brother was though.

are you doing old lady doesn't want to get her hair wet breast stroke?

I tried to do butterfly for the first time whilst in a race in Primary school. limbs everywhere. Not good.

if you were referring to me, i wear neither boardies or footy shorts......or speedos

Aqua shorts?

x-glide skintight swimsuit?

i was talking to tangy, dudewolf, but now i am curious. what do you wear in the pool? do you shower at the pool or do you go home in your mystery togs? what lane do you swim in and if you haven't shaved your legs do you wait until there's no one at the end of the lane and then quickly run in? have you ever picked up at a public swimming pool? what do you think about flippers? do you use lockers to store your stuff while you cut laps? do you take a bath towel to the pool or a beach towel? are your tan lines uneven? how do you think you'd go in the physical challenges on survivor?

speedos while swimming laps, boardies for sauna and spa. The least crowded lane with swimmers at a similar pace to my own. Never picked up at a public pool. Flippers are for cheats. Yes, a locker is a good $2 investment. A beach towel. My tanlines are completely even. i think i'd go ok in every challenge except the ones that involved heights.

i realise those questions were directed at dudewolf septy but i thought WTF, i'll answer them anyway, hope you don't mind.

do you keep your smokes in the locker, crackwhore? i don't bother with a locker. i tell you though, when i worked at monash pool one of the swimmers busted a schoolgirl going through her handbags. all the female lifeguards wanted to dob her into her dad and all the male lifeguards where like, no no, the eye making strumpet has learned her lesson and will never do it again. i bet she's in jail now. shoes, they used to get nicked all the time.

ooh.. let me know how the mp3 playa goes. I'm thinking of getting one.. and one of those snorkles like sallysimpz.. you'll never get me out of the water!

so, i got the speedo 'aquabeat'.

usage-wise, it's fine. just move files across into it. doesn't have a shuffle function or anything, so you have to organise tracks yourself. one easy way is to simply make an itunes playlist. shuffle that, then transfer that playlist onto it. i added a bunch of podcasts, so i just click through them.

it clips onto your goggles strap at the back of your head. i barely noticed it. the headphones have short leads that go straight to your ears, to avoid being tangled in your arms. i felt they got stuck a little as i was trying to breath on each side. i couldn't work out a way of avoiding that just yet.

i swam for over an hour, and throughout, the ear buds were annoying. they go into your ear, and act as plugs so the sound can go straight in, unaffected by the water. they were quite sore in my ear-hole, and the plastic 'hook' that went over my ear wasn't that great either. i've used ear-bud phones before, and these were a little too big. i guess i just have to get used to a bigger size in the hole. maybe if i just relax and have a wine before i swim.

the sound was very good, even though i was only listening to Lime Champions, but there was no bleeding of sound.

if my ears get used to the size of the buds, then i'd be a very big fan, but unless that abates, i might not be so keen to recommend them to everyone.

a hesitant 7/10.

after doing an image search, maybe i should have put the player just behind my left ear...

Gabbo, that looks awesome. Where'd you buy it from?

got mine from Wiggle.co.uk

it was about $100. they have them at speedo shop in collingwood, but retail at about $160.

great weather for swimming.

spent practically all day at Fitzroy yesterday.

Tattoo ratio was very high.

The pool also got ridiculously gross as the day went on. The toddlers pool was clearer than the olympic one.

I now have a sinus infection.

and sunburn.

end of post.

I want to start swimming. If I'm not very good at it would it be worth having lessons to make sure I'm doing it properly?

summer is the worst time for lap swimming. stupid jerks messing with my good times.

do you have a mate who is a decent swimmer lilo? they could get you started

Hmm, I'll ask around. That's a good idea dudewolf!

gabbo, I dislike Fitzroy pool for swimming. Went there the other day. It IS gross, not very clean, too many people checking other people out, and too many people swimming in the wrong speed lane - Seriously, if you have a whole lane of swimmers backlogged behind you - MORE TO A DIFFERENT LANE!

Having said that, I got through my laps.

The end

im with thebastard!!! choose the right lane for your speed. also dudes with ill timed 'kick offs' piss me off!!! don't wait till i've just finished a lap to start yours, i'm on a roll jerks! summer lap tourists. hate em.

yeah. i notice all of those things, but i've never seen the water so turgid before.

turgid.

i got through my laps fine (slow-medium speed as i am 9 weeks post-shoulder surgery, and spend half of lap quota swimming just left-armed freestyle) though. if you are actually fast i could see annoyance.

nothing worse than pool rage.

once it's on i get out.

i'm there to relax and to get the lads out with me smugglers.

i'm there to relax and to get the lads out with me smugglers.

umm, keep em in....

Seriously though, I'm not a fast swimmer, I'm not slow, but I stop at the end of the lanes and let people over take if they are faster and generally pay a little curtesy. Its not hard.

Generally I swim in summer, my old gym used to be all year round on and off.

It would be nice if I wasn't feeling stared at getting in and out of the water though. Northcote is good, the times I've been there it seems chilled out

i had the most phenomenal swim this afternoon while driving back from a winery in the kiewa valley. fucking AWESOME. tree swing and everything.

You shouldn't swim and drive

well it's a good thing i wasn't driving then, wasn't it.

I just did my first laps this morning after a month's holiday. Thinking I might need something to aim toward to make me swim more regularly, maybe an ocean swim race. I'm an ok swimmer but always swim in pools except for mucking about in the sea. Has anyone done one? If so is the ocean heaps harder to swim in? Will I drown or be eaten by dolphins? I'm in Sydney by the way