Open Water - the full story
legalbeagle
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Curiosity has got the better of me and having read Britspin's commnts on the Redditch Tri post I just had to come up with a cunning and devious way to get all the gory details - so here we go...
What was your worst ever open water moment? and - to get some positive vibes on this post - how did you get over it.
For me, it was my fisrt open water race - 1.5km swim - thankfully I was only doing the swim as I was part of a relay. The week before the weather was great! The night before there was some kind of gale blowing and so by the morning of the race the water was like a rough sea! The course was shortened due to the conditions which were hell! My team mates were most encouraging with their comments of "oh we're so glad we're not getting in there"!! Massive white horses hitting you head-on...really not very nice. I ended up doing breast-stroke for most of the outward leg, just to give myself chance to breathe.
Still, I managed to finish and the homeward leg - which, although a bit like surfing was much better and because of the direction of the waves - gave me a far better time than I expected (28.35mins) .
Since then, I've gone out far more in windy weather to practice and learnt to breathe on any side away from the waves when I need to whereas before I was a dedicated bi-lateral breather.
It's that time honoured bit of advice .... practice practice practice!!
So folks - what's yours.......
What was your worst ever open water moment? and - to get some positive vibes on this post - how did you get over it.
For me, it was my fisrt open water race - 1.5km swim - thankfully I was only doing the swim as I was part of a relay. The week before the weather was great! The night before there was some kind of gale blowing and so by the morning of the race the water was like a rough sea! The course was shortened due to the conditions which were hell! My team mates were most encouraging with their comments of "oh we're so glad we're not getting in there"!! Massive white horses hitting you head-on...really not very nice. I ended up doing breast-stroke for most of the outward leg, just to give myself chance to breathe.
Still, I managed to finish and the homeward leg - which, although a bit like surfing was much better and because of the direction of the waves - gave me a far better time than I expected (28.35mins) .
Since then, I've gone out far more in windy weather to practice and learnt to breathe on any side away from the waves when I need to whereas before I was a dedicated bi-lateral breather.
It's that time honoured bit of advice .... practice practice practice!!
So folks - what's yours.......
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Not got no see swims planned to be honest, and after reading them, don't want any....[:'(]