dir-f question?

[happybuddha]

il be taking my swim test in puerto gallera, philippines wherein the currents and waves will be working against me. should i be worried?

Spoon, I imagine the swimtest will be run off the beach in Small Lalaguna, out in front of Tech Asia. It doesn't normally get too choppy there and I also expect you will do laps so if the current is against you on one leg it will be with you on the opposite leg.

Enjoy yourself and don't celebrate too much in the Point after you finish!

Drew

 

[RTodd]

yes but wouldn't they also expand the time for more than 300?

no, but it is instructor dependent.

 

[notabob]

I wouldn't worry about the swim test. During my DIRf the instructors chose not to run a measured line in a pond where we did the dives, so they had the 12 of us play around in a 15yd pool at a Days Inn for about 10mins instead. Intention may have been to do laps, but 12 people in a 15yd pool can't easily all do laps at the same time without bumping into each other all the time. So it was playing around. Guess they needed the entertainment...

 

[JWU42]

Agreed on the 300M as a minimum. I think most everyone can do this without issue. For me between Breast stroke and Freestyle I was able to knock it out in 8 minutes. It was in open water with a current. The downstream leg went damn fast - coming back was a ******. I suspect it was closer to 400-450 M.

Like the OP said - I spent a good month just doing laps - working up to 1000m sessions. I swam competitvely as a kid - but it is amazing that all the endurance goes away after those years. Swimming endurance is rather different than running/biking.

Long story short - you will do fine!

 

[Soggy]

During my DIRf the instructors chose not to run a measured line in a pond where we did the dives, so they had the 12 of us play around in a 15yd pool at a Days Inn for about 10mins instead.

I believe you mean 15 FT...15 yards would actually be doable, as a standard pool is 25 yards.

 

[pants!]

15 ft would be an incredibly small pool.

12 people in a 15 yard pool that's maybe 15 feet wide would be... a little too dense to do that swim, I think.

 

[Soggy]

15 ft would be an incredibly small pool.

12 people in a 15 yard pool that's maybe 15 feet wide would be... a little too dense to do that swim, I think.

It was no more than 15-20 ft long....Howard Johnson hotel pool.

 

[pants!]

Didn't realize you were there!

That IS a tiny pool

 

[notabob]

10yd, but that's my final offer. We were like a school of herring dashing back and forth when a tuna's approaching...

Didn't realize you were there!

That IS a tiny pool

 

[Spectre]

What ever it was, we had to a full lap out and back to kinda cover the underwater requirement.