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Open Water Swim Challenge 2022 | Update 6

27 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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After swimming just 260 meters before asthma-like breathing forced him out, the creator got back in and finished 1,200 meters. He argues open-water swimming is mostly mental: fear and head games matter more than fitness or technique.

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So, um, I went to the big boy pool. This is the little, the little pool that I usually go to, but this is the competition pool. I wore the full wetsuit. Um, I didn't go very far, but what's really crazy is like I first got in and I just sort of like was like having asthma problems and stuff. And I got out and I only done 260 meters and I got out and I was like, fuck this. And then I just sat there and I was like, okay, I'm gonna get back in. And then I did another 1,200 or so, and I was like, like really realizing how much of a head game this is. It's not as physical. Like, I, I got this wrong in terms of like physical versus mental and mechanics, you know, fitness, mechanics, and mental game. This shit is mental game in a big time, and the fear and everything. But, you know.