Subject: RE: CASUAL run challenge--julyOkay...I have a new appreciation for ocean swims now! I've swam at the beach millions of times but this time was different...I had on my goggles, my swim cap and I was breathing to the left & right perfectly (well...maybe not perfectly! ).
Long story short - I had 1/2 hour I was going to swim. I went to the beach at 5:30 a.m. and realized I was getting ready to be inducted into the Polar Bear Swim Club - NO WAY! YIKES! That water was WAY TOO COLD! So, I stood out there, toes in the water, freezing to death with my towel wrapped around me. An HOUR later I finally got into the water. For the first few hundred yards I couldn't even put my face down in the stuff. It was like swimming in an ice bath! Finally I did it, though. Only problem is...16 minutes into my 1/2 hour swim I got stung not once, not twice but THREE TIMES by jellyfish!!! OUCH, OUCH and more OUCH! For 42 years of my life I've never been stung AT ALL and here I am with three at one time!!! When I realized what had happened I started heading toward the shore...ticked off that I had to stop my workout early and scared to death because when I looked all around me there were jellyfish everywhere!!!! I was like GET ME THE CRAP OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two hours later I'm still burning....but I'll survive....I'll just stay on the boardwalk and RUN!
BTW, I'll put up some pics later...no, not of the jellyfish...or my red as can be arms and legs... |