What's a "lap" anyway?

[cjsmith]

If a "lap" is out and back, then I did ten laps this morning. My arms are pathetic. I hope to ramp up slowly.

Before 8AM, there are three swim lanes: slow, medium, and fast. This morning I learned I am solidly medium. I held my place with the guys in that lane just fine.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My arms do something like the breaststroke and my legs do the kick from the sidestroke. This leaves my eyes above water almost all the time. YAY!

The crawl is designed to fill your ears with water. That's its only purpose. ;-)

[rampling.livejournal.com]

If your ears still feel annoyingly full of water after a swim, you can use Swim-EAR drops (http://www.wellcene.co.uk/cgi-bin/loadpage.cgi?user_id=320&file=w-swimear.html) to get rid of the water. Has always worked great for me, so I'm never left with that annoying feeling. I think you can also just use some sort of alcohol, if you put the right sort in a dropper bottle, but I never went to all that trouble since the little Swim-EAR bottles lasted quite a long time for me.

And, yeah, if your stroke is that... ummm... "special"... I'd suggest even more strongly that you find a way to take a swimming class or go to some sort of stroke clinic. Or maybe you could even beg a local Serious Swimmer friend to give you some pointers. I doubt swimming can be much fun when you're fighting the water more than gliding in it!