OW sea swimming

Leezar

I am having a few problems with getting to grasp with sea swimming, I have only had 3 attempts but have race in less than two weeks...

I’m finding that I seem to have a rather large intake of salt water for every breath when I open my mouth to breath as it runs off my face in to my open mouth, then in no time I suffer from the urge to bring up anything in my stomach at this point loose all will to keep swimming.

Hope someone can offer some assistance to my dilemma

Bman

Hi, I went through a stage of having a smiliar problem in the pool (so not quite as bad I guess), But I found if I slowed my stroke down and got more rotation in the hips on each stroke, it gave me more time on each breath. It also meant I was horizontal on the breath which reduced the problem a bit, as my mouth was further out of the water.