I'm getting more and more spooked by algae, seaweed, etc...
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hello all, i've been swimming in a lake in upstate NY the last few weeks and I'm finding I get more and more spooked when I see algae, leaves, branches, etc. Any suggestions on how to work on this? I found when I concentrated and counted strokes, I could keep my form and do well. But it didn't last. I'd start to spook myself out again and my form would deteriorate because i keep trying to sight what's ahead of me.
How do you deal with the harmless debris you might bump into on your lake or ocean swims?
The lake i'm in is relatively clean, though murky. 3-4 feet visibility. I also have a kayaker accompany me.
Chris
My husband says we took it to shore to grill it. (Gallows humor reigns at our house.)
We actually weren't quite sure what to do. We weren't interested in touching it and it wasn't like someone would have been able to find it again once the currents took it.
As I remember, we talked to the hotel, to a slightly skeptical audience. Then, we pretty much focused on reading the paper for the next few days, trying to see if anything, ahem, surfaced in print.
Our speculation was that it was someone who had fallen from an immigrant boat, either trying to get to the U.S. from Cuba or somewhere in the Caribbean. (Anyone read Continental Drift, by Russell Banks? Amazing book that covers some of this territory and is utterly compelling and tragic. Very gripping read.)
That also would have accounted for a lack of anything in the news, either t.v. or newspaper.
Also, it looked like it had been out there for longer than just a few days. It was not a new injury.
My husband says we took it to shore to grill it. (Gallows humor reigns at our house.)
We actually weren't quite sure what to do. We weren't interested in touching it and it wasn't like someone would have been able to find it again once the currents took it.
As I remember, we talked to the hotel, to a slightly skeptical audience. Then, we pretty much focused on reading the paper for the next few days, trying to see if anything, ahem, surfaced in print.
Our speculation was that it was someone who had fallen from an immigrant boat, either trying to get to the U.S. from Cuba or somewhere in the Caribbean. (Anyone read Continental Drift, by Russell Banks? Amazing book that covers some of this territory and is utterly compelling and tragic. Very gripping read.)
That also would have accounted for a lack of anything in the news, either t.v. or newspaper.
Also, it looked like it had been out there for longer than just a few days. It was not a new injury.
