Ever get one of these? This is probably the 4th or 5th time in about 7 years of swimming/triathloning that I have developed a splitting headache while swimming. The first time it happened I remember standing in the shower in the locker room thinking I was going to passout. I thought I was going to have to sit down right there in the shower. That would have looked weird. I made it to the locker room and just sat on a bench for a while until things started clearing up. Don’t remember how long those symptoms lasted.
Today I was just planning to do about 2K, with a continuous 1.5K alternating between easy/tempo/hard 75’s. On my first hard 75 I started feeling “not right”. I decided to press on and the discomfort steadily escalated. I limped along to 1k and then threw in the towel. My symptoms were the headache, lightheadedness and mild nausea.
It’s now an hour later, still with a mild head and a little nausea, oh and kind of a stiff neck. Sipping some gatorade, since water is now “bad” for you but that’s a different thread.
Anyway, have you ever experienced anything like this? It seems to be a pretty random event. Lot’s of things I can think of that might be contributory: just switched to swedish goggles, not much sleep last night, pretty nasty fast-food chinese lunch, maybe dehydrated, maybe psychosomatic… I don’t know, but I sure as hell know I don’t want it to happen again.
If this would have happened during a race, I would have been done. Just walking back to my house was uncomfortable, I couldn’t imagine getting on a bike feeling like that.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.