Oh Mighty Wing
I swam... and now my head hurts...
my best guess is it's because of my lungs. they are asthmatic even though we pretend they aren't. As I work them they get stronger and then I have no symptoms. But it's been a long time since I've been in a pool and don't any sort of swimming. So I'm just guessing they are swimming weak...so I'm going to keep ignoring it for another week or so and then if it's still happening I'm just going to start biking right away afterward so I can get use to biking with the headache...
sound reasonable??
i only rotate to each side - i'm a 4 stroke breather... but yes I was just thinking that - I also look forward which keeps my head in a position it's not use to...
really I think I'm just not in swim shape! haha
and thanks for you $0.02!!!
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Don't be obsessed with your desires Danny. The Zen philosopher Basha once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.'
I don't know alot about swimming, but I would second the hypoxia comment. I looked up shallow water hypoxia earlier and this sounded like what the op was experiencing.
Breathing every fourth stroke also seems like a long time to be without oxygen as well as long time for the co2 to build up which is most likely causing the headache.
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
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hmm i wasn't really trying to breath every 4 it just seemed to be the rhythm i settle into... stroke, hold, exhale, exhale, stroke... i can try the every other thing though...
thanks for all the advice!!
Over the past year I've settled(w/a lot of work) into a 3-stroke rhythm. Every two was too much, and I couldn't handle every four. As an added benefit, my form has improved!
I would get hypoxic when I tried to go every four strokes. I played with a 2-4-2-4 rhythm, It wasn't too bad. You could try that.