Newbie Open Water Training, Fri June 6th

[Phil Sykes]

Will try and get along this evening, too. After my (non) performance in Athy 😳 , I need to get in some practice 😀

[Gmonee]

I’ll b there too! Gareth

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[christy]

Hi,
thank for organising such sessions.
There are really unvaluable to us newbies.
I could not make it as I had registered for Lough Ree on Saturday and was not in form to do both.
Reality for a new to tri like me is that I am badly in need to get better at open water swimming.It is just hard.

Last year I only did my first openwater (Dublin City) (only had done the fingal tri in NAC before) and I found it tough (the cold, the hyperventillation, the muscles not responding at well.. etc…) so I decided to join the club and pushed my winter training from January to spring thinking I needed better conditioning. and thank you for the good swimming training sessions I believe it has made me a better swimmer.
So I did Athy Sprint. Found it tough. But if fact nothing compared to yesterday. Athy I could more and less follow the “middle” line and the downstream helps doing a good time. Lough Ree was with lots of waves, not lanes etc.. I had prepared myself like stay calm, breath, try to see where you are going, do not rush warm up gently and then slowly accelerate your rythm etc… well I started in the pack by breaststroke until the first buoy as we were facing the waves and I wanted to see were I was going. I was starting to feel the cold less as well. and then after first buoy I decide to go front crawl…well all the mistakes I target the wrong buoy due to loosing concentration on effort, then zig zagging etc…until the second buoy and lost of time, was tired much more than I am ever in a swimming pool and had to revert to breast stroke until the final buoy as again I did not want to lose the track. In other words I revert in what I know I am comfortable at as I am not really ready yet for proper open water.
I cannot even image how I am gonna manage one day the sea swim.
I am willing to take the bull by the horns if I can make any progress as it really requires doing it again and again..
So please I am not sure what turn you had during Friday session but I will do my best to join whenever there are new ones organised.

[BOB]

Hi Christy

Every Wednesday(SS) and Sunday (NS) during Summer there will be uncoached members open sea swim meetups.

Come along to as many of these as u can -just let the group know you are new to open water and u need someone to keep an eye on ya.

We have all experienced the horrible hyperventilation/washing machine drowning feeling so the only thing is to kill it with lots of practice.

Brendan

[Hugh]

Thanks Sinead for a great session on Friday and to the 18 people who turned up for slightly more-choppy-than-usual sea conditions at Seapoint!!

Agree with what Brendan has just said. And if anyone is very nervous sea swimming, Seapoint is a great place to go with a friend – the area to the right of the Martello tower is a great place to practice (where Sinead ran her session). Swim from the railings over to the railings about 100m further to the right (avoiding the rock in the middle!) – it’s shallow enough that you can stand when you need to. Check you’ve got high tide before you go 🙂

Feeling ready for a little bit of a race? Howth Aquathlon starts tomorrow (Monday 9th June). See here:
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[christy]

thanks for letting me know about the sessions and locations. I will try to get this sorted.
Great club organisation for the newbies.
Christophe

[sinead5]

Great to see so many out for the session on Friday night. And totally (almost) fearless too 😉 Brill to see !

[sineadlambe]

Thanks for the session Sinead was great help

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