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Anyone who like to log in miles in the pool. Great for your aching muscles. Good for cross training. Great way to lose weight. Look for interesting workouts. Local pools when traveling, etc.
Recent Messages
Nyad's swim
Amazing accomplishment even if she did fall short of her final goal. Swimming is so good for you at any age.
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posted by kowboy83
Achin' is a good name for it
A little more than 2 years ago I had such extreme pain in my arm I couldn't even finish a lap. After stretching and another attempt I gave up. A few months later what I thought was a stiff neck tur...
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posted by kowboy83
The Great Swim
From Publishers Weekly
In 1926, when Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, the event was publicized around the world, and she was celebrated as an American hero in a s...
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posted by kowboy83
Everybody in the water!
What kind of swim workout do you do?
I swim a mile freestyle to start. Then I put on swim fins and do 500 m kicking with a board, 500 m backstroke and/or backstroke kick. Sometimes I do 25 or 50 ...
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posted by kowboy83
New to the group
I hope others join in so there can be some discussion.
I swam in a summer league when I was young. My kids were year-round US-swimmers for more than 10 years. Sometimes when I was getting them up...
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posted by kowboy83
New
Love to swim; been out for a while and long to get back and just swim. Swimming is where I sort out my world and all my problems.
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posted by softball53girl
First 09 surfs
I know this is a swim group, but I also surf and the paddling you have to do when you surf, helps swimming. I went out yesterday afternoon (fun, fun, fun) and early (well, not that early) this morn...
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posted by ggcarroll
learning to share
I went to the Y again last night after work. I was feeling kind of crappy and sore and old so I sat in the sauna for a while and didn't even think I would swim, maybe just use the hot tub to loosen...
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posted by Mok1953
I wish the pool was this empty
I just found this group cause i saw imaswimmer and thought, i'm a swimmer too. when i was teaching my son to swim i told him we all start out as swimmers, swimming up the canal of life. i think he'...
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posted by Mok1953
