Swimming advice please!
katieloua29
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Do you breathe every 2 or every 3 strokes? I find if I breathe every 3 I can swim straight as it all balances out, but can go off on a tangent if I breathe every 2 (so breathing on one side only). But I only started swimming 3 months ago as well, so am hardly an expert!
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Was wondering if someone could help. When I first started open water swimming about 3 months ago I had no problems swimming in a straight line whilst doing front crawl. However, over the last couple of weeks I seem to have started veering off to the left when I lift my head out to breathe. I don't feel like I am swimming any different to before. What am I doing wrong?!
How many strokes do you take between sighting? Maybe you need to sight more often to help you stay on track? If it's windy etc and there's a bit of a tide I can often end up sighting every third stroke - it really helps me to keep straight and the time I lose sticking my head up is well and truly gained back by not swimming extra metres because I'm off course.
Hope this helps a bit