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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only lost my cookies once during an 8 mile race. the game warden's boat was spewing exhaust in my direction for a while.... end of story. it completely robbed me of my energy.
Hey, but you finished! (hypothetically speaking...) Congratulations! :cheerleader:
Congrats, Isobel! :applaud:
Excellent! I doubt I'll ever do 10k in a pool.
Thanks! Hypothetically speaking. And I just looked at my splits last night and even after the hypothetical grossness, I didn't tank; I wasn't a speedboat but I kept steady, which was far from my perception.:drown::banana::bliss::bed::bow: Now to practice.:anim_coffee:Obviously I'm out of control with these little doodads. Sorry.
I threw up my oatmeal at Big Shoulders last year. I was about 800 or so into the race and in the middle of a pack that kept hitting me. One guy smacked my head and my goggles flew off. I stopped, threw up, thought about quitting, then found the goggles and continued on. I ended up having a really nice swim once I got out of that group. I will not eat oatmeal this year before BiG Shoulders for sure! :applaud:
Um, what is Big Shoulders? Outdoors or indoor pool? Must be outdoors if you are in a pack.
Let's see what other doodads I can use to say woohoo to you . . .:woot::wave::groovy: :cool: (I'm just going for visuals here; I like the blue guy with shades and half smile; he looks cool, like a swimmer who toughs it out.) (You.)
So should we start a nonnutrition thread? Like "Down with oatmeal," and, hypothetically speaking, "Down with pineapple/mango/peach juice and banana chunks"? Hypothetically speaking please don't say Good Lord, Izzo! No wonder! Cetera.
This thread is getting kind of funny! I have always wondered why I've never seen anyone throw up on the T in Boston.
Once on my way to practice one morning, early, a man sat two seats away from me, shouting at everyone on the train (he was rather intoxicated). He then took his false teeth out and placed them neatly on the seat between us.
I did the run-and-switch-train-cars at the next stop....
Ah, fond memories... :oldman: the closest I've come was back in college when I finished a 1650 and then vented some bile into the gutter. Small price to pay for staying just ahead of the same guy for the entire race... After a different 1650, one of my teammates mentioned that he'd thrown up twice during the race. No one else seemed to have noticed.
Big Shoulders, to answer Isobel's Q first, is a 2.5k/5k swim in Ohio Street Harbor, Chicago, Saturday, Sept. 12: www.bigshoulders.org. This year it is the middle distance USMS championship swim and I am trying to be out of town. Last year there were ca. 650 registrants; this year it may hit 800. I got kicked in the face last year, and ppl crawled over me (you've already grabbed my legs, don't you think the rest of me might be attached?), turning the race, or community swim with dogs, into mixed martial arts - the aquatic version.
I hope the nutrition thread has legs. What people eat before a swim is always a good topic. Hypothetically, of course. ;)
I threw up my oatmeal at Big Shoulders last year. I was about 800 or so into the race and in the middle of a pack that kept hitting me. One guy smacked my head and my goggles flew off. I stopped, threw up, thought about quitting, then found the goggles and continued on. I ended up having a really nice swim once I got out of that group. I will not eat oatmeal this year before BiG Shoulders for sure! :applaud:
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Um, what is Big Shoulders? Outdoors or indoor pool? Must be outdoors if you are in a pack.
Let's see what other doodads I can use to say woohoo to you . . .:woot::wave::groovy: :cool: (I'm just going for visuals here; I like the blue guy with shades and half smile; he looks cool, like a swimmer who toughs it out.) (You.)
So should we start a nonnutrition thread? Like "Down with oatmeal," and, hypothetically speaking, "Down with pineapple/mango/peach juice and banana chunks"? Hypothetically speaking please don't say Good Lord, Izzo! No wonder! Cetera.
I threw up my oatmeal at Big Shoulders last year. I was about 800 or so into the race and in the middle of a pack that kept hitting me. One guy smacked my head and my goggles flew off. I stopped, threw up, thought about quitting, then found the goggles and continued on. I ended up having a really nice swim once I got out of that group. I will not eat oatmeal this year before BiG Shoulders for sure! :applaud:
See, here is proof that throwing up while swimming is OK. I continued to share this lake without a problem during this swim, and there isn't even any cholorine there. I must admit feeling a tad queasy coming around turn 2 the second time myself. Some boat fumes weren't mixing well with the swells.
