As the sort of person who only wears at most a t-shirt when it is -1 degrees in the depths of winter, I'm finding this lead up to summer extremely difficult. It's far too warm to exist outside at all let alone actually do anything I have worked out I can just about cope with 10 degrees at 6.something am in the morning, and even that makes me feel a bit ill.
Am a bit relieved the half I was supposed to be doing in July got cancelled, I can transfer my entry to a nice soggy, muddy, freezing winter race!
Anyway, in my last 2 running slots I have switched to swimming in the sea (early morning before people go to the beach) instead, is this a good idea? Would it help maintain fitness until we get some cooler/wet days? Is there a rough equivalent in swimming of e.g. a 5k, 10k etc. run, or is it more e.g. 30 min swimming = 30 min run?
Curious to see if anyone else is mixing in other activities!
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I swam as cross training between runs for a while, and I swam when I couldn't run because my foot was injured, but I don't think it was any substitute for running to be honest. It kept things moving, but was totally different. Then again, I'm just a head-above-water-breast-stroke-swimmer 🙄🤣
I have been doing yoga for strengthening/core stuff as well, so hopefully it won't matter too much if it is too hot to run for a few weeks, the first day it rains or there is a chilly wind I am going to be out there! 😄
Exercise is a good thing, if swimming is giving you your buzz then great, my swimming style is very similar to an old fashioned egg whisk, lots of effort for almost zero progress so not a fan, but cross-training generally absolutely the more the merrier including mowing the lawn
I am a head underwater swimmer! I think it helps in two ways. It helps to loosen things up, and it is good for core strength. We have (had pre Covid !) a trainer who took us through all four strokes in different weeks and mixed them up too. Swimming lengths and turning from back stroke into crawl and back Mid length is a good one. Running seems so easy in comparison as you can breathe when you want to. Don’t think it makes me a measurably better runner, but it irons out some of the effects of running on the body.
Until a few weeks ago, I was purely just doing running and was getting all sorts of weird injuries, like pulling random muscles? tendons? in my feet and miscellaneous achy leg errors, so if going for different exercising helps with that sort of thing when running I am all for it!
Have been swimming in the sea up and down between two rocky bits about 100m apart and I have mixed up the strokes a bit, mainly because I found crawl is a lot stronger against the tidal current when it's there!
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I have worked out I can just about cope with 10 degrees at 6.something am in the morning, and even that makes me feel a bit ill.
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