Hello, I'm new here and I'm rly curious about your reasons, motivations to do open water swimming? For me, it's just like any other sport. Do you have any interesting story about this??
I like several things, the most of which is beautiful, warm, tropical water and the vacations that come with it. I love the strategy needed to be competitive, from feeds to navigation to pacing. It’s feeling one with nature. It’s getting out of your own mind
I do OWS because there are no walls and barriers such that I can swim continuously without breaking my rhythm.
Also, I love to meditate in open water - floating and sinking far out in a calm sea with clear water and where I can't see the bottom, with no one else and no traffic around, getting the feeling of weightlessness.
However, the beautiful warm tropical water and the vacations there you are describing is actually a torture for me. My swimming mood won't work well in warm water (i.e. non wetsuit legal temperature) and I feel tired very easily when the water is too warm, i.e. temperature in the eighties.
Instead, I love beautiful clear water which is cool enough such that I can swim hours without getting overheated , like temperature in the sixties.
I like several things, the most of which is beautiful, warm, tropical water and the vacations that come with it. I love the strategy needed to be competitive, from feeds to navigation to pacing. It’s feeling one with nature. It’s getting out of your own mind
I do OWS because there are no walls and barriers such that I can swim continuously without breaking my rhythm.
Also, I love to meditate in open water - floating and sinking far out in a calm sea with clear water and where I can't see the bottom, with no one else and no traffic around, getting the feeling of weightlessness.
However, the beautiful warm tropical water and the vacations there you are describing is actually a torture for me. My swimming mood won't work well in warm water (i.e. non wetsuit legal temperature) and I feel tired very easily when the water is too warm, i.e. temperature in the eighties.
Instead, I love beautiful clear water which is cool enough such that I can swim hours without getting overheated , like temperature in the sixties.
