Last night I had my 3rd swimming lesson. I am slowly getting better. I have been taking coaching tips and combining them with stuff from Terry Laughlin’s books & videos (the Total Immersion stuff). I found that when I had my head all the way down in the water, my legs came up. I was more balanced, and I seemed to move faster through the water with less effort. Very cool.
But I also found myself last night, getting dizzy and nauseous at points. At one point I got out of the pool and felt like I might throw up. The room seemed to be moving, and I got a headache for a while.
When I got home, I was scheduled to run for an hour. But my stomach was upset. Not enough to keep me from eating, but enough that I didn’t want to be bouncing up and down on a treadmill. I skipped my run and will do it tonight.
I have a history of getting sea sick on boats in rough water. So maybe that is what is going on. But I didn’t seem to have the same problems when swimming before. Well except when I tried swimming on my back, such as a back float, or backstroke. I ate dinner before I went to swim lessons. Maybe that had something to do with it. What I think is the most likely cause is water getting into my ears. I think when I did the back float stuff, and when I swim doing the front crawl with my head deeper in the water, I am getting water in my ears. And I think that is messing with my equalibrium. I bought ear plugs, so I will try those. I am planning on going swimming tomorrow night, or maybe this weekend. My wife suggested that she would come with me to swim laps.

Posted by Rob in Swimming on June 18th, 2008 |