Hi from the Netherlands
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Carl Sohn posted 3 years ago.
Je suis Quebecois, et je vein de Montreal. Presently I live in Halifax NS and like you I have a hard time with the swim. I am working on it and have managed to put together about 300 m recently. My hope is to compete in a sprint tri (500m, 20 K, 5 K) in May this year. Welcome to the team and goodluck in your training.
P.S. persistence is what it takes with the swim
Salut est a plus tard.
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trollhunter posted 3 years ago.
Carl Sohn wrote:
Je suis Quebecois, et je vein de Montreal. Presently I live in Halifax NS and like you I have a hard time with the swim. I am working on it and have managed to put together about 300 m recently. My hope is to compete in a sprint tri (500m, 20 K, 5 K) in May this year. Welcome to the team and goodluck in your training.P.S. persistence is what it takes with the swim
Salut est a plus tard.
Bien le bonjour :)
I would say we are in the same boat, not drowning but almost..
The good news when one is at the bottom of the ladder is that things can only improve :p
If I manage to complete my 1/4 in May I plan to participate in Montreal's 1/2 Esprit in September
as you are from Montreal, even if a little bit away from it today, maybe you will be in Montreal in September.
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Carl Sohn posted 3 years ago.
Unfortunately I grew up in Montreal but don't live their anymore. I live on the coast in Halifax. Although we'll see how my sprint tri times are in the spring/summer and maybe I may go to Montreal for the Oly distance. It'll give me an excuse to visit my parents. IN any case good luck in yyour training, I still haven't drown yet, but I think I drank about 2 litres of pool water om Friday. Slow and steadt wins the day.
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hipfan posted 3 years ago.
Bonjour from Alberta. (thats about all the french we speak in Alberta)
As everybody has said just keep at it. I have been hitting the pool about 2 times a week and went from having trouble doing 250 meters to last week finishing 1000 meters without stopping. I try to concentrate on keeping my body flat from head to toe. I still have an issue in breathing comfortably though, but spending time in the pool is deffinately helping.
Au revoir. :confused:
Hello from the city of Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
I am a French guy new to the tri, hopefully did some running when I was living in France (Paris-Versailles 16.3 km in 1H32 ) and currently I am using my Dutch bike to commute and go to the nearby town some 15km from home and I keep running 3 times a week.
I plan to do a 1/4 in May and hope to get hooked enough and manage to balance work + tri so that I can do a 1/2 in October.
The big, really big problem comes from the fact that I can hardly swim 25m ;-)
A+
Lionel