2020 swim log

Name|Distance (km)|--Pool--|--OW--|last session|# of swims
2old4dacold|8.3|100%|-||4
rayo|3.7|3.7|-| Long 1k warmup, 10 x 100|2
Martin|4.13|0|100%|
Kurt Godel|9.1|100%|0|still slow, but starting to get a feel for the water again|6

Name|Distance (km)|--Pool--|--OW--|last session|# of swims
2old4dacold|8.3|100%|-||4
rayo|3.7|3.7|-| Long 1k warmup, 10 x 100|2
Martin|4.13|0|100%|
Toblerone1978|11.5|100%|0|Just steady swims to build endurance, no drills yet|5
Kurt Godel|14.2|100%|0|More improvement, but need to double the volume sharpish|

Name|Distance (km)|--Pool--|--OW--|last session|# of swims
2old4dacold|14.5|100%|-|up to & incl. 25/1|7
rayo|75.3|100%|-|W/U - 20 x 100 - 400 P&PB Fast|32
Martin|81.52|0|100%|
Toblerone1978|49.8|100%|0|To bring my log up to YTD February|20
Kurt Godel|143.8|143.3|0.5||
Baz Wraf|51.5|51.5|0|4KM Pool swim|18
Radharc|3.0|0|3.0|Seapoint|2

May as well keep this updated.

Everything since the lockdown has been done in an endless pool, I was fortunate to build one three years back, and its been a saving grace this past couple of months. At least a km done every day since March. in many ways its good to keep a streak going and as we all know the water washes away stress.
The OW is still outside my 5km zone, but I've measured and its exactly 19.99km from my bedroom to high tide at my usual beach, roll on June 8th!

martin6651 wrote: »

Kurt I'm curious as to how you do 1K in an endless pool if you are not actually moving.

Its similar to treadmill for running- there is a current machine that you swim against. Set the pace and swim against it. There is a fair amount of turbulence, so its closer to swimming OW than a pool, and you have to take the pace setting within a certain degree of accuracy (I do my fastest "100's" at 1:14 pace which I wouldn't manage in the pool). I'm gauging it at 1km for every 20mins spent.

2old4dacold wrote: »

@Kurt, tell us a bit more about the endless pool? Was it expensive? Is it hard on the ESB bill?

It wasn't cheap, about €14K for wooden pool and Fastlane machine (which I built in a shed similar to this). Air-to-water heat pump is very effective and keeps ESB costs down. We're a family of swimmers, live 30k from nearest pool in the countryside and I work from home... so while it was expensive initially I save a lot of time travelling to pools and obviously its perfect for a situation like now.