Your comment hit close to home because I have an athlete that's going to be racing St.Anthony's this weekend (so probably same general area swim body area). She's an olderish woman (mid 50's) who's doing her 2nd ow race ever. We've talked a lot about sighting, being comfortable, what to do when you freak out (really worked a lot on rolling to her back and catching her breath). The past 2 weeks at our masters swim practice I lead, I've taken out all the lane lines and put in swim boys to work on ows skills. The last week we did the session, I told them I was going to be really aggressive with them in the water (grabbing feet, holding arm, pushing them down), and they said that they felt so much better now with understanding what can happen. I even got a black eye out of it from one of my athlete's elbow, but all in a day's work for preparing your athletes.
The note on making sure you don't put on the full suit too early, I'm going to make sure she and my other athletes really have that in their race prep. I cant say for certain if I have actually told them when to put the wetsuit on, so for that nugget of info., thank you.
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@brooksdoughtie
USAT-L2,Y&J; USAC-L2
http://www.aomultisport.com
The note on making sure you don't put on the full suit too early, I'm going to make sure she and my other athletes really have that in their race prep. I cant say for certain if I have actually told them when to put the wetsuit on, so for that nugget of info., thank you.
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@brooksdoughtie
USAT-L2,Y&J; USAC-L2
http://www.aomultisport.com