Some how this got posted in another category...not sure how that happened, so I'm reposting it here.
I am brand new to OW, but I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue. I saw a thread started on the General Swimming board, but I don't know if there is a specific way to deal with this in OW situations. I have my first OW swim coming up in September (3 miles). Although the distance is not the issue, getting over the mental issues are. I have swam twice in the afternoons when the swells are bigger than my usual 6 a.m. jaunts, which would be closer to the race environment, and both times I've come out of the water shaky and tingly. I'm attributing it to sea sickness...? I'm not nauseous, per se, but a bit dizzy to be sure. I'm thinking during a race situation I will be distracted by the other competitors. I will have a paddler with me since this is my first time out, and I have a health issue.
I'm thinking I'm lifting my head up too often since I'm looking for specific buoys. In the race, the 1/2 way point and the ending point are so far apart that I might not feel the need to lift my head as much...?
Anyway, any tips from the experienced OW swimmers?
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I bet it might not be seasickness but possibly really bad gas or muscle spasms. If i understand seasickness well enough there has to be both a visual and a physical component to seasickness. I wonder if you are swallowing air or over-stroking to get over the waves? The gas happens to me when a pool is very busy and the waves in the pool are high or rough. When I am swimming around Portland or further north, I get a really weird feeling in my chest, stomach and head. i was once told by an old man at Bar harbor that it was because I was turning too much as i trying to get my arm over the wave. It would screw up my sense of where my hand was relative to my body. I'd get confused and think it was seasickness. For the second i just slowed down and of course now that I'm back in th elovely state of Illinois I'm not swimming in the northern Atlantic coast.
This is nothing to do with the post. On David right now was a band from Seattle that sounded like every old band from th e70s that were so horrible but made people think they were so great. Kansas comes to mind instantly.
I bet it might not be seasickness but possibly really bad gas or muscle spasms. If i understand seasickness well enough there has to be both a visual and a physical component to seasickness. I wonder if you are swallowing air or over-stroking to get over the waves? The gas happens to me when a pool is very busy and the waves in the pool are high or rough. When I am swimming around Portland or further north, I get a really weird feeling in my chest, stomach and head. i was once told by an old man at Bar harbor that it was because I was turning too much as i trying to get my arm over the wave. It would screw up my sense of where my hand was relative to my body. I'd get confused and think it was seasickness. For the second i just slowed down and of course now that I'm back in th elovely state of Illinois I'm not swimming in the northern Atlantic coast.
This is nothing to do with the post. On David right now was a band from Seattle that sounded like every old band from th e70s that were so horrible but made people think they were so great. Kansas comes to mind instantly.
