J'ai de l'eau dans mes oreilles.

[mrissa]

But it was good; I'm definitely doing this again tomorrow morning, and possibly ever other morning I'm here.

The odd thing about swimming while dealing with vertigo is that the force of waves produced by two smallish women swimming in a long, narrow pool is enough to knock me for a loop if I try to stand up in it afterwards. (So I did try. Repeatedly. What's the worst that happens if you get knocked off your feet in five feet of water, and you're five-foot-six and already have been swimming? You float an inch or so off where you were standing and get your feet back down and try again. Therefore it's pretty safe, and probably good for me to do.)

It took me a few lengths to get my scissor kick back. It wasn't that I didn't have the strength, it was that I never swam sidestroke enough for it to be natural. Backstroke I had right away, the specific arc of the arms and like that. Breaststroke the same. But the scissor kick on my sidestroke took a bit of feeling out. Amazing how much easier that sort of thing is once your legs are pulling their weight, so to speak. I hadn't been swimming in way too long. Now I'm wondering if we can figure something out. Hmm.

More later.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Suggestion: wash your hair only after swimming. For years I kept reading articles saying it's better for your hair *not* to wash it daily, but I couldn't reconcile that with five sweaty workouts a week. Tehn I came across a helpfu one (in a women's sports magazine) pointing out that sweat is water-soluble and rinsing will make it go away. So now I wash it only every other day and rinse on days between. I know that won't work with swimming since chlorine does *not* come out well with only rinsing, but it seems to me you could wash it after the swims and just rinse the rest of the time.

My hair has been very short for the last month, but I've been doing this for years, for much of which it was down to midback. I never blowdry though, even when that's entailed going out in winter with it wet (in college it used to freeze) so YMMV.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I am related to people for whom that advice would work, but I am sadly not one of them. Second-day hair is different from fresh hair, though perhaps only to me; third-day hair is apparent to everyone. I went a week once, and while it was nice to be able to put my hair up with no effort whatsoever, I had a good ten inches of oil slick.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

The rinsing makes the difference for me: second day hair is different from fresh-washed, but second-day rinsed is just as good. But I can see how hair structure and texture would make a huge difference on that.