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Swimming accessories

7/8/2013

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Swimming isn't the kind of sport where you would normally think you would need a host of accessories.  For the most part, a costume and a pair of goggles will suffice.  Start training for speed and better technique, and you might buy some specialist floats, some hand paddles, and some fins (flippers).  

I bought a £1.99 nose clip.

Normally, I would not use one.  I normally don't use one.  But the thought of salt water in my nose for 16+ hours made me reconsider.  Just how painful would that be?  So Monday was my first swim with a nose clip on.  It was horrible at first.  I felt like I had a stinking cold.  It felt just wrong.

But it's surprising how quickly you adapt.  After 45 or so minutes, I was in auto-pilot, and had forgotten all about it.  An hour and a half came round before I knew it, and in the end it was taking the clip off that hurt most.  It felt like I'd been punched.  The bridge of my nose felt tender and bruised.
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    Alan Gale

    One time soldier, part-time author, full-time training manager, husband and father.

    Swam 21.8 miles of the English Channel in August 2014 for Acorns Children's Hospice, in memory of our son, Harry Gale, raising over £13,000

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