Cramp – WTF! I was swimming with a Masters swim group last night and right at the end of the session I had the most terrible cramping in my calves! Talk about painful! It happened last week too in the same swim group but it disappeared very quickly at that time and wasn’t a big issue. My calves have cramped up most times I do a race in open water too (half Ironman/middle distance /Ironman races), but the cramp releases quite quickly at these times.So what’s the problem? I think it is a lack of electrolytes/salts in my body before the training session/race. I normally drink a 750ml bottle of fluids during a swim session, but I think I’ll have to pre-load with something like Nuun before the training sessions. I’ll also have to address this before next weekends Vitruvian race, note to self, drink lots of fluids before the race! Any thoughts?
2 comments:
Although you could be right Frank with the electrolytes and dehydration.
You may also be actively pointing your toes (as you probably have inflexible runners ankles) when kicking hard and this is causing it.
Try working on ankle flexibility and there will be no need to active point your toes or overload on the electrolytes assuming you hydrated when you get to the pool?
Neill
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