Subject: First pool swim in years Man, am I out of shape. I took the family to the local pool last Sunday. During adult swim I left the four year old with my wife and went to "knock out some laps". The lanes are only 25m. I made the first leg ok, trying some of the techniques I've read about here. At the turn-around I paused to eye the two teen girls hanging on the end of the pool having a yap session to make sure they weren't going to suddenly realize that the pool is for *swimming* and jump into the lane. Halfway back and I'm hurting. Good thing my first tri is a little over a year away. It will make a nice story after I complete my first sprint, "yeah, last year I couldn't even complete a lap in the pool". Something I noticed. I never had trouble with water up my nose before. A couple of years ago (when I went for my UPPP for apnea) the doc told me that I had a "severely deviated septum" so he did a septoplasty at the same time. On this swim I had a devil of a time keeping water out of my nose. It might have also had something to do with the fact that I was trying to keep my head down as described here. I just couldn't seem to exhale hard enough to keep the water out.
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