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sea swimming is an order of magnitude harder than lake or river swimming, as there are so many more factors at play, ideally you'd progress through them and build your confidence up, when its choppy try to reflect that in your stroke (i.e. shorten your stroke and don't try and glide) and pick fixed points to swim towards (ideally on land) and look frequently, it also helps if you are able to breath away from the oncoming swell as you are less likely to end up with a mouthful of water than air that way around!
As a stronger a swimmer I love it when its rough as it gives a much bigger penalty to those who get through the swim to bike/run!
Pick if the water the day before the ETU middle distance champs in 2015, I was one of very few people practicing while everyone else was campaigning for a cancelled swim!
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I've done a few sessions now with the sea swimming club, and i'm really enjoying it. I've found it super useful for getting to grips with sighting and checkpoint buoys especially.
We did a point swim yesterday evening of +1km with the tide on the way in. It was great fun and i felt like i could have done it twice.
I'm doing a sprint as my first tri down in Cardiff Bay, and hopefully this will stand me in good stead to at least get out of the water.
4 weeks to go now.
LeChef
All very helpful, thanks.
I think my main worry is the swim. I'm a good swimmer in the pool, always have been, but I don't have any experience in open water. I went out with my local sea swimming club on Friday and it was mental, without doubt one of the most disorientating things I've ever done. I guess it's something that comes with experience, and i just have to keep at it. It was fun though, in a life threateningly enjoyable way.
The transitions are an unknown as well for sure. I'm doing cycling to running work outs and trying to practice swapping over, but i've not tried swimming to cycling yet.