Don’t know if I I said this to you before but if I do a lot of backstroke turns more water goes up my nose equals more nose running that day. Compared with freestyle only.
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As a general reply: in looking up some shampoos for my diva nephew, I ran across this advice for hair: get your hair wet and put in in a cap. The hoi polloy seem to think that wet hair will not absorb chlorine water. I do not know if this is true, or if having moist skin before you get in the pool will duplicate this effect for your body. I thought I’d pitch this idea to the crowd.
Also, I am sad that chlorine is such an irritant for so many. The smell, even the burn up my nose on a hard set are such memory activators of my youth.
I actually wonder if you could get a group together and ask your facility about chlorine levels and lowering them?
Another general reply here, I was taken a bit by this old 16 year old zombie thread, as it was started by a great friend of Dan and I, John Gailsen. He recently died after a very long battle with cancer(12+ years I think), one where they gave him less than a year to live when he was diagnosed. Dan made several trips to say good bye to him up in Truckee, but his athlete heart just would not stop. He won the Tahoe marathon I think 6 times, and at 50 broke the WR for 5k in Carlsbad. He was an odd duck that had a quirky look on life, invented the one wheel skate, 90 degree seat tube bike, and after his cancer used a bike without cranks to get around Fred Flinstone style..
Anyway carry on, just wanted to get some thoughts out here as to the origin of this thread from the past…RIP my friend, remember Jesus loves hot oil wrestling…
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Hi Monty sorry about your friend passing away from cancer. That really sucks. You said he battled it for 12 years though and kept winning?
On the topic of this thread, my running training plan is very simple. And i will get into the running part in the next “why running”.
The reason is I swim daily 45-90 min. I live where there is indoor heating 6 months a years so you are always smelling of chlorine and scratchy and itchy.
A few winters ago, partially because of 100/100 20 min run rule, I started adding 20 min on the treadmill after my winter swims, mainly to get the running over with after my main workout that was swimming. I would actually swim and shower and lather up my bathing suit with soap and use that that scrub chlorine off my skin, then go run for 20 min and then hop in for a no soap super hot shower. And then just use regular moisturizer.
I started noticing on the days that I run immediately after swimming, no my chlorine skin!
Now I mainly swim and my run workouts 5-6 days a week is jogging 20-30 min after the swim. 1x per week I do a “real run” where I go out for an hour.
But my body likes the bigger swim, small run 7x per week routine and my skin likes it. Not sure it would have been the solution for your friend as he probably would not have liked to run for that tiny amount based on what you posted…then again, a 20 min run can be a 12 min warmup, 1 mile “hard” and a short cooldown !