Hit the lake again today. Floated around a bit to acclimate to the temperature. Did a few push and glides face down to get my face wet and breathe out gently. After a minute of that it was not difficult to start swimming without overdoing the pull and turnover like last time.
Went out into deeper water and followed (ok, crashed into frequently) the rope line. Concentrated on taking full pulls and made sure the hands were still hooked up and not too fast down by the hips.
Worked on sighting every few strokes and it went OK. Not a problem as long as I am not going unreasonably fast in the first place. Should focus on this in the remaining 1 or 2 OWS practices this week. That left turn I'm prone to can be pretty severe. See example below.
The bit where I switched from the shallow rope line to the deep one was not intentional. Oh well. Needed to get out there anyway. Fortunately the course in the Tri this weekend turns left. I'll just try and set up on the right of everyone at the start and use the line of people as the reference.
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