I'm signed up for the Swim Across America event at Nantasket Beach, MA next week. For those not familiar, it's a 1-mile OWS to raise money for cancer victims. Since I lost my mom to cancer last year, I'm excited to use my one athletic talent (swimming) to raise money for this worthy cause.
So I went swimming in the ocean with others from my master's swim group this weekend. It wasn't what I hoped. :(
I hated the taste of salt water in my mouth. I just spent the whole time wishing I could drink some water to get that nasty salty taste out of my mouth. I hated that when I turned to breathe, a wave would often smack me in the face. I hated feeling like I was swimming as hard as I could but I was going nowhere (not true, I know, but that's how it seemed). It didn't help that I was with two very nice but very good swimmers who had to wait for me to catch up every few minutes.
Don't get me wrong - I'm still doing the SAA event next week. But I'm wondering if, after this event, I should keep trying to swim in the ocean in the hopes that I'll get used to it, or should I just accept that I'm more of a freshwater kind of gal?
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I hated the taste of salt water in my mouth. I just spent the whole time wishing I could drink some water to get that nasty salty taste out of my mouth.
spent 15 hours , 37 minutes , 11 seconds in the pacific brine yesterday...
my throat and sinus are sore and salt burnt.... my tongue feels like a foreign object in my mouth. during the swim, i puked 5 or 6 times, got bounced around a bit by the wind and waves and swam nearly in place against some odd currents for hours.
today (still sore) i couldn't be happier.
it ain't for everyone..............
I hated the taste of salt water in my mouth. I just spent the whole time wishing I could drink some water to get that nasty salty taste out of my mouth.
spent 15 hours , 37 minutes , 11 seconds in the pacific brine yesterday...
my throat and sinus are sore and salt burnt.... my tongue feels like a foreign object in my mouth. during the swim, i puked 5 or 6 times, got bounced around a bit by the wind and waves and swam nearly in place against some odd currents for hours.
today (still sore) i couldn't be happier.
it ain't for everyone..............
