For those of you who don’t know, I used to swim a lot. I was fairly good, even was the Oregon high school state champion in a couple events.
My main dislike about swimming: After a race, I usually throw up. There’s not much worse than feeling really tired after an event, absolutely sick to your stomach, and knowing that you have to swim again soon.
I wish I knew why I feel sick after I swim hard. And I wish I knew how I could not feel sick after swimming hard.
I had an adult swim meet today. I threw up twice.
Is it a chemical imbalance? It’s happened to me ever since 7th grade or so, so I suppose after puberty…? A few years ago, I asked a couple doctors and looked around online, but didn’t find any good answers.
It’s generally after swimming that I feel sick—probably because I’m really efficient at working in the water at 100% effort and intensity. Although, after lifting weights really hard I sometimes feel sick, but I rarely throw up.
4 Responses to “Throwing Up Sucks”
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July 30th, 2006 at 05:29 PM
Is it because you get nervous?
July 30th, 2006 at 06:11 PM
No, not as far as I can tell. I don’t get nervous at all in practice, and I throw up a lot then.
July 30th, 2006 at 09:26 PM
I always just assumed you were drunk at practice.
July 30th, 2006 at 09:59 PM
And that’s quite an understable assumption to make!
But it’s not true, in this case.