Has anyone ever thrown up while swimming in a race (or, hypothetically, the 10K postal toward the end), halfway down the lane, and, if so, what did you do?
Um, I'll just hypothetically say I had to do a puke/swallow keeping mouth shut thus ensuring no vileness entered pool and then stopped at other end of pool and drank a lot of water and then hypothetically hoped it would not happen again, hypothetically.
Then I was wondering, hypothetically, if one pukes while swimming in a race but does not cause puke to go in pool and thus ruin entire meet or cause entire facility to be shut down, but does a hypothetical puke/swallow followed by water and amnesia, does this mean one is now a real athlete? Is this a common thing swimmers pushing themselves hard run up against midpool during exertion for long distance swims? Even the 1000 free has felt close to this level of hypothetical situation for me.
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I've hurled during a 10K ocean swim. A lot of things were going on that caused that one. Felt better after clearing my gut. Only my kayaker was grossed out.
And I hurled about 10 minutes after finishing a 10K. I was able to bury it in the sand and walk away. No harm, no foul. I'm thinking it was caused by the after-effects of swimming through a sizable patch of red tide during the race.
I've hurled during a 10K ocean swim. A lot of things were going on that caused that one. Felt better after clearing my gut. Only my kayaker was grossed out.
And I hurled about 10 minutes after finishing a 10K. I was able to bury it in the sand and walk away. No harm, no foul. I'm thinking it was caused by the after-effects of swimming through a sizable patch of red tide during the race.
