Ever swim in water so cold it BURNED your skin? It made your extremities blue and numb? It gave you a BRAIN FREEZE? My first REAL open water swim was not the best experience! The water temperature at Ohio Street Beach was only 58 degrees! Normally, this time of year it's around 70. But occasionally, the water flip flops...due to wind direction, etc... The warm water goes out to sea and the cold water comes inland. Wouldn't you know...had to do it THIS weekend!
There were many triathletes in their wetsuits and even THEY were cold. Many couldn't bring themselves to go in. My Master's swim coach and I didn't have a wetsuit and a couple of the guys chose not to bring one (and regretted it later!). Half of us grinned and bared it but cut it WAY short. The plan was to swim a half mile out and half mile back in. The coach and another guy did maybe...200 yards... I did 25 yards! The rest did NO yards! I was getting a little light headed. Coach said she had a brain freeze. The other guy said he just couldn't feel anything! One of the triathletes there said he had a splitting headache!
We bundled up and took a nice moderate walk to a Starbucks for some bagels and hot coffee! We had a great time sharing stories and laughs, so in spite of it all....we had a great time.
When we got back, I threw my running clothes on and took an easy 3 mile run after a two week rest from running. Still have the glute issue...Hmmm.... Might be time to visit my dear doc friend...the Ortho guy... It's been a few months!
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