Sick after swimming

I was looking for some feedback or thoughts on my situation. This past weekend (Sunday), I competed in a Masters meet and swam 4 events (300 total race yards) over the course of 3.5 hours with a total of probably 2000 yards total swimming for the day. I was pretty beat after the meet as expected. Sunday night comes and I get a headache and nausea, no vomiting, fever, coughing, or runny nose, etc. Its now Tuesday and I am still have the nausea, better than I was Sunday night and Monday. Now here is what gets me, this same happened to me last year at the same meet, same pool, etc. I have done all sorts of training and racing in all types of conditions, from the pool to open water and triathlons since then with no adverse results like now. I have pushed myself in training and during the events themselves and I always hydrated and nourished. When it happened last year, I equated to pushing myself to hard but it hasn't happened since until Sunday. Also I learned that complaining to my pregnant wife about being nauseous for a day gets no sympathy :)
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  • If you live long enough, the probability that something very unlikely will happen to you at some point in your life is actually very likely. Two times in a row, when I visited New Hope, PA, I got violently ill the next day with a stomach bug...two years apart...ate at different restaurants the two times, so it wasn't that. Significant? Was it something in the water? Probably not. You probably already had the virus in your body, and it just so happened that you were stricken with the symptoms immediately following the meet. I wouldn't give it a second thought.
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  • If you live long enough, the probability that something very unlikely will happen to you at some point in your life is actually very likely. Two times in a row, when I visited New Hope, PA, I got violently ill the next day with a stomach bug...two years apart...ate at different restaurants the two times, so it wasn't that. Significant? Was it something in the water? Probably not. You probably already had the virus in your body, and it just so happened that you were stricken with the symptoms immediately following the meet. I wouldn't give it a second thought.
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