Friday, November 20, 2009

Open-water Anxiety

I went down to Tempe Town Lake this morning for a quick swim. Its a good idea anyway, but I did it for multiple reasons. I went to see what the water temps felt like (its cold), and I went down there to see if I was going to have issues. Of course, I did. It took me about 10 minutes to get settled down and control my breathing and then I was fine. I swam for about 20 minutes. I'm going to go back in the morning for another 15 minutes or so just to give myself a little more piece of mind before sunday. I don't know why I have these problems, but its really annoying...Its all in my head, but I've yet to purge it permanently. Luckily, I know it passes. I'll be slow on the swim, but I'm ok with that.

I'm headed down to the athlete village in a little while to look around and pick up my bike. The weather is awesome here. I'll post some pictures later today.

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